Chambers Review
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Corporate/M&A - Europe-wide
What the Team is Known For
Cleary Gottlieb utilises strong offerings in the UK, France and Italy to provide seamless cross-border advice on multi-jurisdictional transactions across Europe. The law firm wins roles on high-end M&A transactions on behalf of major multinational corporate clients based in Belgium or France. It acts for US private equity or listed corporate clients either on the divestment of their European operations or on the European aspects of wider global transactions. Cleary Gottlieb is particularly active in share transactions and mergers of multinational companies. The firm's European offices frequently act in cooperation with the firm's leading New York-based team.
Strengths
Cleary has great experience with complex cases and relies on large and high-quality teams to handle highly complex and sophisticated cases in an extremely efficient manner.
They are very attentive to our needs and timescales, and find solutions that go above and beyond basic legal assistance and are tailored to our issues.
The team showed an outstanding mix of protection of clients' interests, creativity in finding solutions, relentless commitment and continuous contact with the clients' stakeholders.
Notable practitioners
Key partner contacts in Europe are Pierre-Yves Chabert in Paris and Laurent Legein in Brussels.