Cleary Gottlieb’s Corporate Finance/M&A practice has been named one of the top five Corporate Finance/M&A practice groups of the year by Law360. The practice was selected based on the size, number and complexity of deals the group worked on in 2010. In a January 13 article profiling the practice, Cleary Gottlieb was noted for its involvement in many of the most widely observed transactions in 2010 and the versatility across the firm’s practice areas and geographies. In addition, the firm’s representation of BHP Billiton ($39 billion bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan), Nortel Networks (ongoing bankruptcy, including related divestitures totaling roughly $1.2 billion), Grupo Bimbo (acquisition of Sara Lee’s North American bakery unit), and JPMorgan Chase ($1.7 billion acquisition of RBS Sempra Commodities’ global oils, metals, agricultural, plastics and European energies commodities operations.), among others, was mentioned.
Law360 is an online news source that covers a wide array of legal practice areas daily. In researching the inaugural practice group-of-the-year awards, Law360 editors reviewed more than 400 submissions provided by more than 300 law firms.