The world's leading global financial organizations and corporations increasingly entrust their most significant transactions, regulatory matters and complex litigation cases to Linklaters' market-leading U.S. practitioners.
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, structured finance and derivatives, executive compensation, investment management, litigation & arbitration, corporate/M&A, financial regulation, restructuring and insolvency 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
- KKR European Fund III, Limited Partnership on the structuring, formation and capital raising of KKR's third European-focused buyout fund
- Lloyds TSB in an international investigation of violations of OFAC sanctions and falsification of business records
- Sanofi-aventis on its $8 billion acquisition of Merck & Co.'s half of joint venture Merial Limited, an animal-health company, and option to acquire Schering-Plough's Intervet
- Rio Tinto on the sale of 56 percent of Alcan Engineered Products’ cable division to Platinum Equity LLC
- Wellpoint on the proposed sale of its NextRx pharmacy benefits management division to Express Scripts Inc in a cash and stock deal worth $4.7 billion
- Citi in relation to its $10.9 billion joint venture with Morgan Stanley to be named Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which would combine Morgan Stanley's global wealth management group and Citi's Smith Barney in the US, Quilter in the UK and Smith Barney Australia
- Sponsors of private equity funds, real estate funds, special situation and distressed investment funds, hedge funds and funds of funds with respect to the structuring, formation and operation of such fund products. Also advising select institutional clients with respect to their investments in private funds and complex secondary transactions involving portfolios of fund and/or direct investments
- Air France on the investigation by the US Department of Justice into price-fixing in the multibillion-dollar market for the air transport of cargo and related follow-on class action litigations
- 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
- Hastings Funds Management Ltd and JPMorgan Asset Management on the $840 million acquisition of US independent power generators
- The Senior Creditors Committee in the $6 billion restructuring of SIV Portfolio plc (in receivership) (formerly Cheyne Finance plc)
- Sierra Wireless in its $289 million acquisition of Wavecom
- BNDES, on the issuance of new SPV bonds to facilitate the refinancing of $1 billion outstanding bonds due in June 2008
- Banco Santander, S.A on its $9.4 billion rights issue in order to increase its target core capital ratio from 6% to 7%
- Citi in the sale of its German retail banking operation to Credit Mutuel Group for $7.7 billion
- Harbinger Capital Partners Funds on their proposed acquisition of a controlling interest in Skyterra Communications, Inc. and proposed offer by both companies for Inmarsat plc
- The Royal Bank of Scotland as arranger and lender in the $17.9 billion sale of Clear Channel Communications
- GNL Quintero S.A. (Chile), as borrower, on $1.11 Billion non-recourse financing of an LNG regasification terminal at Quintero Bay, Chile
- a global investment bank and its subsidiary in litigation in the Cayman Islands involving hedge fund-linked principal protected equity derivative products
- a French investment bank in a securities class action alleging section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 violations arising out of the bank’s public disclosures during the global credit crisis
