Cleary Gottlieb vertritt nationale und internationale Gesellschaften der Einzelhandels- und Konsumgüterbranche in den verschiedensten Angelegenheiten. Unsere Anwältinnen und Anwälte unterstützen Designer, Hersteller, Kleinunternehmen und Konzerne bei Unternehmenstransaktionen aller Art, 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, Prozesse und Schiedsverfahren.
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Selected Experience
- Counsel to The Coca-Cola Company in various matters including its joint venture with illycaffé to produce ready-to-drink coffee beverages and its reorganization of Beverage Partners Worldwide, its worldwide joint venture with Nestlé.
- Counsel to The Home Depot in its acquisitions of Hughes Supply, National Water Works and White Cap Construction Supply.
- Counsel to Istithmar PJSC in its $945 million acquisition of Barneys New York from Jones Apparel Group – named Retail Deal of the Year by Investment Dealers’ Digest.
- Counsel to Henkel KGaA in many transactions, including its £2.7 billion acquisition of the adhesives and electronic and engineering materials businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 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 J.Crew Group in its $430 million IPO, including counsel to J.Crew Group in complex debt and equity restructurings connected to the IPO.
- Counsel to South Korea’s Lotte Shopping in its $3.7 billion IPO – largest-ever IPO by a Korean company.
- Counsel to Ann Taylor, J. Crew Group, McDonald’s, The Home Depot, and Outback Steakhouse among many others on employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
- 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)