Linklaters

In New York, Linklaters has dedicated teams with the capacity and expertise to handle assignments of any size or complexity in the areas of antitrust, banking, capital markets, corporate/M&A, environment & climate change, executive compensation, financial regulation, investment management, litigation & arbitration, restructuring & insolvency, structured finance & derivatives and tax.

In addition to our on-the-ground strength in New York, our network of U.S. law-qualified lawyers extends across 10 of the world’s major business and financial centers: Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Rome, São Paulo and Singapore. Our U.S. lawyers in these offices are integrated both with the lawyers in our New York office and our local lawyers and practices across the globe. As a result, our New York office offers an integrated service to clients across multiple jurisdictions.

Recent significant transactions and cases include advising:

• Deutsche Börse AG on its merger with NYSE Euronext and in litigation commenced by shareholders of NYSE-Euronext seeking to enjoin the business combination between the two exchanges

•  WellPoint, Inc. on its acquisition of CareMore Health Group

• DISH Network Corporation on the US$320m acquisition of substantially all the assets of Blockbuster, Inc.

• Société Générale in over US$2bn leveraged acquisition financings, trade financings, hedge fund financings and numerous supplemental, incremental and add-on financings and modifications for various portfolio investments

• RBS in the structuring of the synthetic transfer of certain assets via total return swap in connection with the sale of RBS Sempra commodities joint venture to JP Morgan Chase and Co.

• KKR European Fund III, Limited Partnership on the structuring, formation and capital raising of KKR’s third European-focused buyout fund

• InterXion Holdings N.V. US$265m initial public offering and two high-yield debt offerings

• BP on the US$7bn acquisition of oil and gas assets in Azerbaijan, Brazil, and the Gulf of Mexico from Devon Energy

• Air France KLM in various antitrust civil class actions and governmental investigations concerning the air cargo and passenger industries

• the Joint Administrators of Lehman European Group Administration Companies in U.S. Chapter 11 cases of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and related debtors and Securities Investor Protection Act proceeding of Lehman Brothers Inc.

• the senior lender committee in the US$2bn cross border restructuring (including U.S. Chapter 11 cases) of Truvo USA, a multinational company specializing in local search and advertising

• a major global defense contractor in a Department of Justice investigation involving allegations of making false statements to the U.S. government and in a related civil derivative lawsuit which won dismissal in the federal district court