Today's fast-paced environment requires that successful businesses engage in significant cross-border transactions to achieve their goals. Acquisitions, divestitures and strategic partnering are necessary elements of every business strategy.

Our deal lawyers work with clients and other professionals to ensure that transactions are structured in an optimal fashion and negotiated with due regard for existing and future relationships. Our team consists of practitioners in finance, securities, corporate governance, benefits, environmental, employment and labor law.

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Representative Matters:

• Represented issuers and underwriters in equity and note offerings registered under both U.S. and foreign securities laws for global technology companies, media companies, financial services companies, Internet banks and health care companies
• Negotiated cross-border technology transfer, joint development and cross-licensing agreements
• Represented most of the industrial countries of the world, including major U.S. manufacturers, in the acquisition of facilities in China, Taiwan, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, France, Mexico, Spain and Russia
• Represented major U.S. technology companies in setting up and creating international distribution networks for their goods and services throughout the world
• Represented a European satellite producer in contract negotiations for the production, sale and delivery (both on-site and in-orbit) of telecommunications satellites
• Advised a Russian industrial company on a power project financed by the International Finance Corporation
• Represented multinational and foreign companies in joint ventures and strategic alliances with acquisitions of U.S.-based business
• Advised a major European company in a pooling transaction for the sale of its interest in a U.S.-based company to an Israel-based company
• Counseled a U.S. subsidiary of a European company in the acquisition of high-tech companies in Canada and in the sale of one of its businesses to a leading U.S. Internet networking company
• Represented the largest Russian steel producer in the negotiation of an investment and steel supply agreement creating an online exchange
• Represented participants at the Treasury Department and before Congress in Exon-Florio reviews