Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP advises on a wide range of transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, carve-out transactions, and other capital market transactions. The team is headed by Washington DC-based Claude Stansbury, who advises domestic and foreign multinational companies, private equity funds, and financial advisors on acquisitions, financings, restructurings, and disposals. In New York, Joe Soltis‘ practice covers taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, financing arrangements, investments, partnerships and joint ventures, bankruptcy reorganizations, securities issuances, and real estate matters. Also in New York, Dennis Caracristi advises on M&A, public and private offerings of stock, debt and other financial products, spinoffs and demergers, structured derivatives, complex securitization transactions, conventional and synthetic financings, and specialized tax advisory and structuring matters.
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Key clients
- Schenck Process Group, a Blackstone Capital Partners portfolio company
- Roivant Sciences Ltd.
- Holcim Group Services Ltd
- Ericsson
- bp
- Siemens
- Stagwell Media
- Pearson plc
- Coupa Software Incorporated
- London Stock Exchange Group plc
- Zymergen
- Morgan Stanley
- Lilium N.V.
- Solvay
- Aristocrat Leisure
- Scottish & Southern Energy Plc (SSE)
- Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Oracle
- AstraZeneca PLC
- ServiceNow
- TriNet
- Cinven
- CVC Capital
- Japan Tobacco
- Sonoco
- Novartis
- One Equity Partners
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Claude Stansbury