USA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Elena Rubinov, George Casey, Heiko Schiwek, Vinita Sithapathy, Pierre-Emmanuel Perais and Clara Pang Linklaters LLP Linklaters LLP is a 187-year-old leading global law firm with over 3,100 lawyers across 30 offices in 23 countries. Linklaters combines legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate evolving markets and regulatory environ- ments, pursue opportunities and manage risk world- wide. Its Corporate M&A team represents boards of directors and management of major companies in their strategic M&A transactions, advising on gov- ernance issues and shareholder engagement. It also advises financial sponsors and investment banks on their most significant and complex transactions in all
sectors and geographies. The M&A team covers the full spectrum of M&A and corporate work, advising buyers, sellers and financial advisers on public com- pany transactions, private M&A, private equity, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, spin-offs, equity capital markets and corporate restructurings. Linklat- ers’ approach combines leading transactional exper- tise with specialist areas including antitrust, CFIUS, employment, environmental, intellectual property, pensions, regulatory, real estate, tax, technology and financing.
Authors
Elena Rubinov is a partner in the M&A group at Linklaters and is the head of US infrastructure and private capital M&A, based in New York. She advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and private equity
George Casey is Linklaters’ global chairman of corporate and chairman of the Americas, based in New York. He has extensive experience in US domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including public
transactions across a variety of sectors, with a special focus on transactions in the energy, renewables and infrastructure sectors. She advises public and private companies, including private equity and infrastructure funds and other investors, on corporate and business combination transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, co-investments, joint ventures, recapitalisations, restructurings and bankruptcy sales. She also advises clients on debt and corporate restructurings in connection with equity recapitalisations, rights offerings, and 363 sales and acquisitions.
company acquisitions, complex carve-out sales, spin-offs, asset and stock acquisitions, strategic investments and joint ventures. He has represented many large corporate clients and sovereign wealth funds, and regularly advises boards of directors and management on strategic M&A transactions, corporate governance, ESG and shareholder relations. George is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches cross-border M&A, and a lecturer in US M&A at l’École de Droit de la Sorbonne – Université Paris I.
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