USA TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Trends and Developments Contributed by: George Casey, Heiko Schiwek, Elena Rubinov, Pierre-Emmanuel Perais, Clara Pang and Gregory Gewirtz Linklaters LLP
Linklaters LLP is a 185-year-old leading global law firm with over 3,100 lawyers across 31 of- fices in 21 countries. The firm combines legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide. The firm’s Corporate M&A team reg- ularly represents boards of directors and man- agement of major companies in their strategic M&A transactions worldwide, and advises them on governance issues and engagement with shareholders. It also advises financial spon- sors and investment banks on their most sig-
nificant 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 pub- lic company transactions, private M&A, private equity, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, spin-offs, equity capital markets and corpo- rate restructurings. Linklaters’ end-to-end ap- proach brings together its leading transactional expertise with the full range of specialist areas including antitrust, CFIUS, employment and in- centives, environmental, intellectual property, pensions, regulatory, tax, technology and fi- nancing.
Authors
George Casey is Global Chairman of Corporate at Linklaters, based in New York. He has extensive experience in US domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, ranging from
Heiko Schiwek is a partner in Linklaters’ M&A group in New York, and is one of the Global Leaders of the firm’s Chemicals sector. Heiko has extensive and diverse M&A experience,
public company acquisitions to complex carve-out sales, spin-offs, asset and stock acquisitions, strategic investments and joint venture transactions, and has represented many large corporate clients and sovereign wealth funds. He regularly advises boards of directors and management on strategic M&A transactions, corporate governance, ESG and shareholder relations issues. George is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (where he teaches a course on M&A) and a lecturer of US M&A at l’ École de Droit de la Sorbonne – Université Paris I.
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.
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