Corporate/M&A (International & Cross-Border) | Global

Latham & Watkins is recognised as an excellent option for clients who require counsel on highly complex and multifaceted cross-border matters. The firm provides an impressive, well-integrated team across its global offices and is praised for consistently excelling across multiple practice areas and sectors, while delivering an internationally oriented approach and comprehensive global support. The firm's efficient coordination across its international network is key to its appeal among high profile multinational corporations, banks and the private equity sector.

Skadden has a premium global practice which has built widespread coverage and expertise across regions and areas of law on the foundation of its longstanding, market-leading reputation for US law advice. The firm has strength in depth across UK and European teams in transactional and contentious areas, which makes the firm a leading choice for sophisticated transatlantic matters. It has an excellent presence in key Asian markets, plus a São Paulo office that boosts the firm's global offering. The firm is a dominant force on international M&A, finance and energy transactions. It also regularly navigates clients through cross-border disputes, investigations and arbitration as coordinating counsel.

For global M&A work, the firm enjoys a robust reputation across the USA and in key global money centres, which is reflected in its impressive book of clients. It regularly acts as global deal counsel for multinational corporates, including pharmaceutical, technology and energy companies, and financial institutions. The USA continues to be the firm's primary driver of substantial cross-border M&A and frequently coordinates the firm's overseas offices or with external counsel abroad in cross-border deals. The combination of Skadden's offices in New York and London is often praised, while the firm's West Coast teams regularly collaborate with Skadden's excellent teams in Asia.

Long-term, concerted international expansion from Cleary Gottlieb's US base has enabled the firm to become one of the most globally-recognised brands in numerous areas of international law. The firm's broad office network incorporates established teams stationed across key financial and political centres in the USA, Europe, South-East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

The law firm performs strongly on cross-border transactions, combining deep roots in the US market with well-established M&A teams in key global jurisdictions across Asia and Europe, particularly the UK and France. The US M&A team is proficient in project-managing and working with colleagues and local counsel in cross-border M&A on behalf of its US and global clientele. The New York office acts as the key hub for leading work on the firm's international M&A practice, and is a top choice for US public companies in their most challenging global transactions as well as for clients entering the US market.

White & Case provides clients with an impressive global platform. The firm handles high-end, complex mandates from the USA and works seamlessly with other teams in its expansive network across EMEA and Asia-Pacific and with other offices across North and South America. The team excels in transactional and contentious matters, and is recognised for its ability to drive cross-border deals into other jurisdictions. By remaining highly attuned to the needs of all international clients, it is a popular choice for global operations.

The firm performs excellently in global private equity and public M&A transactions, with clients equally attracted by its highly proficient US team and its wide presence across major and emerging markets globally. The US team often collaborates with the firm's well-reputed European and Asian teams for inbound and outbound deals, serving US clients investing abroad and foreign companies entering the USA. It has a strong track record in US-Latin American M&A, leveraging its teams in Brazil and Mexico, which work closely with the Miami office. The firm also maintains strong ties to clients active in the Middle East, frequently leading transactions from the USA and utilising strong experience in the energy sector.

A&O Shearman is well equipped to handle cross-border M&A, financing and project development matters on a truly global scale. Its integrated practice across offices in North and Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East combines to efficiently perform as lead counsel on multi-jurisdictional matters. It maintains relationships with an extensive variety of firms for the provision of local law advice outside the USA and Europe.

New York is the centre of the firm's global M&A expertise and acts as a hub for US clients in outbound work, acting as a key link with European and Asian offices as well as project-managing local counsel. Its offices in Washington, DC and California also cover other major US financial centres. With corporate groups embedded in numerous foreign jurisdictions, the firm offers US-based and global clients a far-reaching platform combined with a strong US practice, which is able to meet the challenges of complex cross-border M&A. The firm's clients come from across financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace and energy.