Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2019 - Winners Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY M&A AWARDS 2019 FIRM PROFILE Skadden’s Paris office offers a wealth of experience in corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, regulatory, tax and employment law. French and U.S. qualified attorneys advise French, European and multinational companies, financial institutions and investment funds on a range of legal matters, notably on highly complex cross-border transactions. The Paris office serves as one of Skadden’s major hubs for pan-European work, and our attorneys are experienced in working with the various cultural differences that frequently arise in transactions involving multiple jurisdictions. Our French boardroom practice covers all relevant issues at the board’s level, including directors’ duties and board procedures, board policies, prevention of conflicts of interest and implementation of best practices, andwe stay at the forefront of the most current corporate governance issues, trends and recommendations. Skadden has built a strong reputation in the French market, tailored to address our client’s needs. Our dedicated teams: - have high-caliber project management skills and a ‘can-do’ attitude; - truly understand a project’s requirements on both a legal and business level; - are exceedingly responsive to evolving conditions and deadlines; and - draw on the depth of resources of Skadden’s international network. Skadden’s Paris attorneys, many of whom are multilingual and multicultural, are consistently recommended in Chambers Europe, The Legal 500: EMEA and other legal directories. skadden.com MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS LAWYER OF THE YEAR FRANCE ARMAND W. GRUMBERG Armand is the head of Skadden’s European Mergers and Acquisitions practice and the leader of the firm’s Paris office. He has extensive experience in strategic and complex cross-border transactions, including public and private acquisitions, contested and hostile bids, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and capital markets transactions. He also has extensive experience in shareholder activist-related matters. Transactions in which he has recently acted include Nokia in its combination, through a €15.6 billion public exchange offer and public buy-out offer followed by a squeeze-out, with Alcatel-Lucent and Capgemini in its $4 billion acquisition of IGATE. 28