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Consumer Products and Retail
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 such well-known consumer products and retail companies as Ann Taylor Stores, Bausch + Lomb, Fresh Del Monte, J. Crew, McDonald’s and Sony on executive compensation and corporate governance matters. Also counsel to several CEOs and other senior executives of consumer products and retail companies with respect to contract negotiations and tax matters, including executives of Barilla, Express, Harrods, Home Shopping Network, Prada and Tommy Hilfiger.
- Counsel to Grupo Bimbo and its U.S. subsidiary, BBU, in its acquisition of Sara Lee’s North American Fresh Bakery business.
- Counsel to The Coca-Cola Company in connection with its proposed acquisition of Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
- Counsel to J. Crew in its acquisition by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners.
- Counsel to Stanley Black & Decker in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Niscayah, a leading commercial security and monitoring company specializing in electronic security services and solutions.
- Counsel to TPG Capital in the sale of Mey İçki Sanayi ve Ticaret, Turkey’s leading spirits manufacturer, to the drinks group Diageo for approximately £1.3 billion.
- Counsel to a joint venture between TPG Capital and VTB in a high profile shareholder dispute over control of a $2 billion Russian retail group.
- Counsel to SABMiller on tax aspects of its approximately $11 billion acquisition of Foster’s Group.
- Counsel to Istithmar in the Chapter 11 proceedings of its portfolio company Loehmann’s Holdings.
- Counsel to Sodiaal, the leading French dairy cooperative group, in the acquisition and debt restructuring of Entremont Alliance, a European cheese manufacturer.
- Counsel to Lenovo in its joint venture with Compal Electronics.
- Counsel to Goldman Sachs as financial advisor to The Coca-Cola Company in its $12.3 billion acquisition of the North American bottling operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises and the sale to Coca-Cola Enterprises of The Coca-Cola Company’s Swedish and Norwegian bottlers, Coca-Cola Drycker Sverige AB and Coca-Cola Drikker AS. Also counsel to Goldman Sachs as financial advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of DSW Inc. in its acquisition of its controlling stockholder, Retail Ventures, Inc.
- Counsel to FEMSA in $7.35 billion strategic exchange of its beer operations for shares of Heineken Holding N.V. and Heineken N.V., which together constitute a stake of up to 20% in Heineken.
- Counsel to Vale in $4.7 billion acquisition of Bunge’s fertilizer nutrients assets in Brazil, including Bunge’s interest in Fosfertil.
- Counsel to The Home Depot in its acquisitions of Hughes Supply, National Water Works, White Cap Construction Supply and Redbeacon.
- 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 Lotte Shopping in its $3.7 billion IPO of common stock and GDSs.
- Antitrust counsel to Maytag in $2.7 billion merger with Whirlpool, the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances.
Americas Restructuring Deal of the Year, Best Restructuring
(Comerci)
International Financing Review (2012), LatinFinance (2012)
M&A Deal of the Year,
Americas M&A Deal of the Year
(Heineken’s acquisition of FEMSA’s beer operations)
Latin Lawyer (2011), International Financial Law Review (2011), Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers (2011)
Best Primary Equity Issue
(Grupo Comercial Chedraui’s IPO)
LatinFinance (2011)
Debt Market Deal of the Year
(McDonald’s Corporation’s RMB bond offering)
Macallan ALB Hong Kong Awards (2011)
#3 in U.S. Consumer Products and Services M&A
Thomson Reuters (2011) (Announced, value)
#3 in Japan Consumer Products and Services M&A
Thomson Reuters (2011) (Announced, value)
Restructuring Deal of the Year
(GRUMA)
Latin Lawyer (2010)
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)
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