USA LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: George Casey, Heiko Schiwek, Elena Rubinov, Vinita Sithapathy, Kristina Trauger, Pierre-Emmanuel Perais, Clara Pang and Gregory Gewirtz, Linklaters
Linklaters is a 187-year-old leading global law firm with over 3,100 lawyers across 30 offices in 20 coun- tries. Linklaters combines legal expertise with a col- laborative 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 regularly represents boards of directors and management of major com- panies in their strategic M&A transactions, advising on governance issues and shareholder engagement. It also advises financial sponsors and investment banks on their most significant and complex trans-
actions 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 company transactions, private M&A, pri- vate equity, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, spin-offs, equity capital markets and corporate re- structurings. Linklaters’ approach combines leading transactional expertise with specialist areas, includ- ing antitrust, CFIUS, employment, environmental, in- tellectual property, pensions, regulatory, real estate, tax, technology and financing.
Authors
George Casey is Global Chairman of Corporate and Chairman of the Americas at Linklaters, based in New York. He has extensive experience in US domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including public
Elena Rubinov is a partner in Linklaters’ M&A group 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
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 of US M&A at l’École de Droit de la Sorbonne – Université Paris I.
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.
Heiko Schiwek is a partner in and co-head of Linklaters’ US M&A practice in New York, and is one of the Global Leaders of the firm’s
Vinita Sithapathy is a partner in Linklaters’ M&A group, based in New York. She advises corporate and private equity clients on domestic and cross-border M&A and investment transactions. Drawing on over ten
Chemicals sector. Heiko has extensive and diverse M&A experience, ranging from public company acquisitions to complex carve-out sales, strategic investments and joint venture transactions, and has represented many of the largest US and non-US corporate clients. Heiko is known for working on some of the most complex deals, particularly in the chemicals and industrials space.
years of experience, she represents clients in a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and sales of companies and businesses, consortium transactions, joint ventures, private investments, management rollovers and reorganisations. She has experience of working in a range of sectors, including technology, infrastructure, life sciences, food and agriculture, manufacturing and consumer goods.
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