Cleary Gottlieb represents domestic and international businesses in the wide array of legal matters arising in the consumer products and retail industry. Our lawyers assist designers, manufacturers, small businesses and conglomerates in all aspects of corporate transactional work, including M&A and capital markets matters, as well as in issues of business strategy, corporate governance, employee benefits, intellectual property rights and litigation and arbitration.
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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)