Mr Robert Townsend III > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Offices
Two Manhattan West
375 Ninth Avenue
New York 10001
United States
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Mr Robert Townsend III
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Robert I. Townsend, III is the Head of Cravath’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice for North America. His practice focuses primarily on all types of M&A transactions, corporate governance matters and activist defense. Mr. Townsend’s clients have included AmerisourceBergen, Anheuser‑Busch InBev, Brink’s, Brunswick, Cable One, Canadian National Railway, Cincinnati Bell, City Brewing, Conduent, DiaSorin, Frontier Communications, J.D. Power, Johnson & Johnson, MacAndrews & Forbes, Martin Marietta, Nestlé, Olin, OUTFRONT Media, Pinnacle Foods, Quest Diagnostics, Scientific Games, Stanley Black & Decker, Univision and US Foods.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
(Leading lawyers)Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP advises on the full range of transactions across the telecoms and broadcast space, focusing on the corporate aspect of business-critical M&A and financing mandates for major companies and investors active in the sector. The firm’s market-leading M&A practice is well-equipped to represent clients on complex, high-value, cross-border transactions, with further strengths in tax, corporate governance, and intellectual property. The New York-based practice is co-headed by Robert Townsend III, whose extensive expertise in all types of M&A and corporate governance has resulted in a track record of advising on a number of high-profile telecoms deals. Also active in this space is Andrew Elken, whose recent work includes advising Rogers Communications on its pending C$26bn acquisition of Shaw Communications, and representing Cyrus in its $15bn acquisition by KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Telecoms and broadcast: transactions United States > Media, technology and telecoms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense