Fort d’une expérience internationale de plus de 60 ans en financement de projets, marchés de capitaux, fusions-acquisitions et droit de la construction, Cleary Gottlieb continue d’être un pionnier en matière de fabrication et de services industriels. Le cabinet a travaillé sur des projets de financement et de construction qui furent les premiers de leur genre. Fort d’un réseau de 14 bureaux intégrés sur quatre continents et d’une présence mondiale ancienne, nous offrons à nos clients du secteur de la fabrication et des services industriels une expertise dans tous les domaines du droit et une expérience internationale pour ainsi dire inégalée.

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Selected Experience

• Counsel to BHP Billiton in connection with its $40 billion all-cash offer to acquire Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.
  
  
• Counsel to The Stanley Works in its acquisitions of CRC-Evans, Xmark, Sonitrol Corporation, and HSM Electronic Protection Services, and the sales of its CST/berger laser leveling and measuring business to Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, its home décor business to Wellspring Capital Management, and its entry door business to Masonite International Corporation.
  
  
• Counsel to Goldman Sachs, as financial advisor to Diversey Holdings, in its $4.3 billion sale to Sealed Air Corporation.
  
  
• Counsel to PETRONAS Chemicals Group in its approximately $4.7 billion initial public offering, the largest IPO ever in Southeast Asia.
  
  
• Counsel to Honeywell International in its $1.4 billion public offering of notes and related tender offer and redemption.
  
  
• Counsel to Western Digital in the global antitrust aspects of its $4.3 billion acquisition of Hitachi’s hard drive business.
  
  
• Counsel to Fintech Advisory, as a creditor to Vitro, in defeating the attachment of bonds issued in a tender offer by Vitro in proceedings against Vitro brought before the New York Supreme Court on behalf of Aurelius Capital Master and Elliott International.
  
  
• Counsel to Rexel in the negotiation of two new syndicated multicurrency senior revolving credit facilities, totaling €1.7 billion, as part of the refinancing of Rexel's existing €2.7 billion senior credit facility. Previously counsel to Rexel in its €3 billion acquisition of Hagemeyer and subsequent divestiture of Rexel's German business and sale of a portion of Hagemeyer's businesses to Sonepar.
  
  
• Counsel to Precision Castparts Corp. in its acquisition from a foreign private equity fund of an indirect 49 percent interest in Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube Co. Ltd., a leading PRC seamless pipe company.
  
  
• Counsel to Standard Microsystems, a leading semiconductor company, in the acquisition of BridgeCo, a leader in networked audio technologies. Also counsel to Standard Microsystems in the acquisition of Symwave, a supplier of “USB 3.0,” next generation high-speed storage and transfer technology.
  
  
• Counsel to Terex in the acquisition of the port equipment business of Fantuzzi Industries and restructuring of its indebtedness.
  
  
• Counsel to Hynix Semiconductor in connection with the European investigation of the DRAM sector, in which the European Commission made its first cartel settlement decision.
  
  
• Counsel to 3M in its $943 million acquisition of Cogent through a tender offer followed by a second step merger.
  
  
• 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, its purchase of several deodorant brands from Gillette, and the divestiture of its stake in Ecolab.
  
  
• Counsel in HeidelbergCement's €2.3 billion capital increase and €2.1 billion placement of shares from the holdings of existing shareholders, International Financing Review’s "EMEA Equity Issue of the Year."
  
  
• Counsel to The Dow Chemical Company in obtaining U.S. Federal Trade Commission and European Commission clearance of its $18.8 billion acquisition of Rohm and Haas, on worldwide antitrust aspects of the subsequent sale of its refinery business to TOTAL, and on the U.S. antitrust aspects of its sale of Morton Salt to K&S Aktiengesellschaft and the sale of its calcium chloride business to Occidental Petroleum.

Best Syndicated Loan
(Nemak’s dual-currency loan)
LatinFinance (2012)

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Best Malaysian Deal of the Year, Best Equity Deal of the Year
(Petronas Chemicals $4.1 billion IPO)
FinanceAsia (2010), Islamic Finance (2011)

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Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year and M&A Deal of the Year
(Mittal’s Acquisition of Arcelor)
Acquisitions Monthly, International Financial Law Review (2007)

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Latin American Loan of the Year, Syndicated Loan of the Year and Corporate Finance Deal of the Year (Financing of CVRD’s acquisition of Inco)
International Financing Review, LatinFinance, Latin Lawyer (2007)

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“This M&A heavyweight certainly handles a steady diet of private equity work, regularly advising … industrial clients in big-ticket LBOs.”
Chambers Europe (2007)