Cleary Gottlieb is representing the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (“UAW”) in its negotiations with GM and the U.S. Treasury relating to the Chapter 11 filing by GM. The firm’s work has included advising the UAW with respect to the proposed ownership of 17.5 percent of a new GM by a union retiree healthcare trust, a structure Cleary Gottlieb helped put in place in 2005.
Cleary Gottlieb has a long relationship with the UAW dating back to the 1990s and the restructuring of Navistar Corporation. In recent years, the firm represented the union in connection with the novel agreements entered into in 2005, 2007 and 2008 with General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler to establish the Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association trusts to provide retiree health care benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans.
