Cleary Gottlieb vertritt nationale und internationale Gesellschaften in einer Vielzahl rechtlicher Angelegenheiten der Einzelhandels- und Konsumgüterbranche. Unsere Anwältinnen und Anwälte unterstützen Designer, Hersteller, Kleinunternehmen und Konzerne bei allen Aspekten von Unternehmenstransaktionen, insbesondere in den Bereichen M&A und Kapitalmarktrecht. Zudem beraten wir Mandanten zu Fragen der Geschäftsstrategie und in den Bereichen Corporate Governance, Arbeitnehmervergütung, gewerbliche Schutzrechte sowie Rechtstreitigkeiten und Schiedsverfahren
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Selected Experience
- Counsel to The Home Depot in its acquisitions of Hughes Supply, National Water Works and White Cap Construction Supply.
- Counsel to The Coca-Cola Company in reorganization of Beverage Partners Worldwide, Coke’s worldwide joint venture with Nestlé.
- Counsel to Henkel KGaA in many transactions, including its $2.9 billion “cash-rich split-off” transaction with Clorox, its $2.9 billion acquisition of The Dial Corporation, and its purchase of several deodorant brands from Gillette.
- Counsel to South Korea’s Lotte Shopping in $3.7 billion IPO – largest-ever IPO by a Korean company.
- Antitrust counsel to Maytag in $2.7 billion merger with Whirlpool, the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances.
- Counsel to Toyota in consumer class actions over Canadian imports.
Retail Deal of the Year
(Istithmar’s acquisition of Barneys New York)
Investment Dealers Digest (2007)
Latin American M&A Deal of the Year
(Almacenes Exito’s acquisition of Carulla Vivero)
LatinFinance (2007)
U.S. Equity Issue of the Year
(VMWare’s IPO)
International Financing Review (2007)
Deal of the Year
(Lotte Shopping’s IPO)
Asian-Counsel (2006)
Leveraged Finance Innovation of the Year
(Neiman Marcus PIK Notes LBO Financing)
Euromoney (2006)