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Strategic partner
With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 20 cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations.
Lead partner
Linklaters is a 185 year-old leading global law firm with over 3,100 lawyers across 31 offices in 21 countries. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide. In order to offer our clients the highest quality advice, our lawyers across three divisions — Corporate; Litigation, Arbitration, and Investigations; and Finance — specialize in industry sectors as well as practice areas.
Our Corporate M&A team regularly represent Boards of Directors and management of major companies in their strategic M&A transactions and advise them on governance issues and engagement with shareholders. We also advise financial sponsors and investment banks on their most significant and complex transactions in all sectors and geographies. We cover the full spectrum of M&A and corporate work advising buyers, sellers and financial advisers on public company transactions, private M&A, private equity, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, spin-offs, equity capital markets and corporate restructurings. Our end-to-end approach brings together our leading transactional expertise with the full range of specialists areas including antitrust, CFIUS, employment and incentives, environmental, intellectual property, pensions, regulatory, tax, technology and financing.
Lead partner
Wachtell Lipton was founded on a handshake in 1965 as a small group of lawyers dedicated to providing advice and expertise at the highest levels.
We have achieved extraordinary results following the distinctive vision of our founders — a cohesive team of lawyers intensely focused on solving our clients’ most important problems.
We have experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers and takeover defense, shareholder activism, corporate and securities law and corporate governance. We handle some of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and around the world. We counsel both public and private acquirors and targets. We also handle sensitive investigation and litigation matters and corporate restructurings, and counsel boards of directors and senior management in critical situations. We have a track record of original and groundbreaking solutions and innovations that have had a dramatic impact on business and law. We are thought leaders.
Our distinctive structure defines our approach. We maintain a ratio of associates to partners significantly below that of other firms. We focus on matters that require the attention, extensive experience and sophistication of our partners. We limit the number and type of matters we undertake. Our system of lock-step compensation promotes a careful selection of matters as well as the flexibility to bring the right expertise to bear without regard to factors extrinsic to providing the best service and advice. We work together on a task-force basis on all of our matters, bringing to bear the requisite mix of people and expertise across practice areas. Our structure and approach attract talented and entrepreneurial lawyers, who enable us to achieve excellent results for our clients in complex and critical matters.
Visit us: www.wlrk.com
Associate Partner
FW Cook is an independent executive compensation consulting firm that provides objective advice to boards and management teams of the world’s leading companies. Our firm’s principal objective is to add value to the executive pay programs and processes of our clients. Our consultants collaborate with clients to solve complex problems and design programs that support their business strategy and successfully link executive pay to shareholder value. Founded in 1973, we are the market leader for board advisory relationships with publicly listed and privately held companies. FW Cook’s offices are located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and Boston. To learn more about us or to join our mail list, visit us on the web at www.fwcook.com.
Associate Partner
Gladstone Place Partners is a strategic financial communications firm headquartered in New York. We specialize in advising companies and investors at critical moments when communications can make a significant difference in achieving core objectives. We are a highly focused and experienced team with a broad range of backgrounds, including business leaders, communications professionals, finance professionals, and former senior journalists.
With global capabilities, our diverse team is designed to meet the evolving strategic communications needs of leading companies’ CEOs, boards of directors, and heads of communications. Clients seek Gladstone Place Partners’; counsel on a range of matters, including mergers & acquisitions, crisis situations, corporate reputation and strategic positioning, IPOs and spinoffs, global trade and supply- chain matters, cybersecurity, shareholder activism, quarterly earnings announcements, and corporate governance communications.
Our boutique approach, with a focus on independent advice and confidentiality, enhances our ability to help our clients navigate layered and critical matters. We understand the complexity and super-charged nature of today’s environment, which is why we have social and digital capabilities embedded in our DNA.
Gladstone Place Partners strives to build long-term, trusted relationships by delivering the highest quality work product, paired with uncompromising ethics, integrity, and judgment. Our work is underpinned by a culture of professional excellence, meritocracy, and diversity.
Our founder and chief executive officer, Steve Lipin, has spent more than 30 years at the intersection of the corporate world, Wall Street, and the media as a leading financial journalist and top communications strategist to C-suites, boards of directors, and chief communications officers.
Associate Partner
Joele Frank provides essential strategic counsel and tactical support when it matters most, from market-moving transactions and high-stakes situations to ongoing investor relations and corporate communications. We are differentiated by the depth of our experience, our commitment to fresh thinking and reputation for delivering impactful results, earning consistent #1 rankings across our M&A, activism defense, and bankruptcy practice areas. Our comprehensive expertise extends to our leading financial sponsors, governance and corporate stewardship, and creative services teams. We balance seasoned leadership and fresh perspective to provide 24/7 strategic support for our clients, which span virtually all industries, market caps, and geographies.
Visit us: https://joelefrank.com/
Associate Partner
Kekst CNC has pioneered strategic communications to help clients achieve their critical business objectives for more than 50 years. Our creativity, judgment, and empathy are trusted by Boards and management teams for their most complex reputational opportunities and challenges. We build deep partnerships with clients, delivering expert, top-ranked counsel on high-stakes matters including M&A, shareholder activism and contested situations, crisis and issues management, cybersecurity, litigation support, investor relations, public affairs, and bankruptcy and restructurings. As part of Publicis Groupe, Kekst CNC leverages our unique access to data to drive highly targeted, effective solutions for our clients when it matters most.
Associate Partner
Pay Governance LLC is an independent firm that serves as a trusted advisor on executive compensation matters to board and compensation committees. Our work and client partnership helps ensure that our clients’ executive rewards programs are strongly aligned with performance and supportive of appropriate corporate governance practices.
Visit us: www.paygovernance.com
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