Background - Practices (Details)

Antitrust Mergers and Acquisitions

Contacts

Representative Matters

  • AT&T in its landmark $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner and its $48 billion acquisition of DIRECTV
  • UTC in its $135 billion acquisition of The Raytheon Company, its $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins, and its $16.5 billion acquisition of Goodrich
  • Humana in its proposed $34 billion acquisition by Aetna 
  • Coventry Health in its $5.7 billion sale to Aetna
  • DuPont in its $4.9 billion sale of its coatings business
  • AT&T in its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile
  • AT&T in its $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth
  • SBC Communications and Cingular Wireless in their $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless (the largest all-cash transaction in U.S. history)
  • DuPont in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Danisco
  • Rio Tinto in the divestiture of U.S. coal assets
  • Reed Elsevier in its $4.1 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint
  • United Technologies in its $1.8 billion acquisition of the GE Security business
  • Sierra Health Services in its $2.6 billion acquisition by UnitedHealth Group
  • Alcoa in the formation of its purchasing joint venture, Evermore Recycling
  • Pratt & Whitney in the formation of aeroengine  joint ventures with General Electric and Rolls Royce
  • E.I. DuPont de Nemours in the formation of its biotech trait and genetics licensing joint venture, Greenleaf Genetics, with Syngenta
  • Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and UBS in the formation of trading platform ICE US Trust
  • Sikorsky in its teaming arrangement with Lockheed Martin to support helicopters for the U.S. Navy
  • DuPont in the formation of its soy nutrition ingredients joint venture, Solae