About

Provided by Milbank LLP

Dynamic and insightful, our Corporate attorneys are known for delivering strategic, innovative and practical legal advice to leading businesses and financial institutions (including private equity firms, asset managers and hedge funds) on their most important, complex and cutting edge transactions.

Our Corporate group has executed transactions throughout the world in numerous regulated and unregulated industries.  Drawing upon our deep bench of talented attorneys in areas such as tax, antitrust, executive compensation and benefits, ERISA, real estate, FCPA/trade compliance, environmental law and intellectual property, as well as other applicable industry experience, our ability to deploy cohesive deal teams of superior quality on diverse matters anywhere in the world is highly sought after by the most discerning players in today’s global marketplace.

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded - New York

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Milbank LLP acts on an array of deal work, including joint ventures and cross-border transactions. The corporate team is adept at mid-market deals, often working with private equity firms and energy companies as part of a broad client base. The firm's in-depth sector expertise spans the financial services, healthcare, media, pharmaceutical and technology industries. Milbank also offers broad international capabilities, including pronounced expertise in deals involving Latin American interests.

Work Highlights

  • Milbank served as co-counsel to U.S. Steel on its $14.2 billion merger with Nippon Steel.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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John D Franchini
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John D Franchini
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Band 5
John Franchini maintains a practice that is strong in a broad range of corporate transactions, particularly those in the power and infrastructure areas.

He is very wise on strategic business decisions.

He has great market knowledge and is able to step in in key moments on a file and provide thoughtful and strategic advice.

John is great to work with. He is really commercial and knows how to get to the heart of matters right way. He is efficient and practical.

He is a very strong counsel and great relationship manager.

His availability is outstanding and his ability to discern very complicated matters and convey them in a bitesize, understandable fashion is exceedingly great.

Ranked Lawyers at
Milbank LLP

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Corporate/M&A

John D Franchini
5
John D Franchini
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Band 5

Members

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Aaron Stine

Bob Kennedy

Dean Sattler

Francisco Nuñez

Iliana Ongun

John D Franchini

John D Franchini

Head of Department

Neil Whoriskey

Richard Presutti

Scott Golenbock