Manufacturing and Industrial Services

With more than 60 years of international experience in project financing, capital markets, M&A and construction law, Cleary Gottlieb continues to be a pioneer at the forefront of manufacturing and industrial services. The firm has worked on many innovative and first-of-their-kind project financings and construction projects. With a network of 12 integrated offices on three continents and a longstanding worldwide presence, we offer our clients within the manufacturing and industrial services sector expertise across every practice area and cross-border experience that is virtually unmatched.


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Practice Highlights What Others Say About Our Practice

Selected Experience

  • Counsel to The Stanley Works in its acquisitions of HSM Electronic Protection Services, the sale of its home décor business to Wellspring Capital Management, and the sale of its entry door business to Masonite International Corporation.

  • Counsel to Kohler in its acquisition of the Lombardini Group, an Italian engine manufacturer.

  • Counsel to Hynix Semiconductor in $500 million high-yield debt offering—the first Korean high-yield offering of 2007.

  • Counsel in the €405 million IPO of Germany’s Wacker Construction Equipment, a leading European manufacturer of light and compact equipment for the construction business.

  • Counsel to Hong Kong electronics materials manufacturer Kingboard Laminates in its HK$6.4 billion Hong Kong-listed IPO.

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)

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)

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