Institutional Counsel for Pivotal
Mergers, Acquisitions & Capital Deployments.
Advising Fortune 500 boards, sovereign investment funds, and premier private equity sponsors through complex public-company buyouts, cross-border regulatory scrutiny, and high-stakes antitrust clearances.
M&A Regulatory Scrutiny & Transaction Risk Matrix
Statutory analysis evaluating HSR, CFIUS, and cross-border merger controls
Synthesized by automated statutory rules engine verified by our Mergers & Acquisitions and CFIUS practice groups.
Representative Closed Transactions
Selected multi-jurisdictional mandates representing corporate acquirers, targets, and underwriter syndicates.
Cross-border carve-out and divestiture of enterprise telecom infrastructure across 14 EU jurisdictions.
Secured unconditional FTC antitrust clearance for national specialty pharmaceuticals distribution merger.
Obtained full Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) safe-harbor clearance for autonomous sensing platform.
NASDAQ Global Select Initial Public Offering and concurrent institutional private placement notes.
Specialized Corporate Capabilities
Chambers Global Band 1 • Wall Street & London Chancery
Mergers, Acquisitions & Private Equity
240+ Closed DealsPublic takeover bids, hostile defense, carve-outs, consortium bidding, and cross-border joint ventures subject to multiple regulatory regimes.
Antitrust, FTC & CFIUS Clearances
100% CFIUS SuccessDefending transactions against DOJ second requests, European Commission phase-2 inquiries, and negotiating CFIUS national security mitigation agreements.
Capital Markets & SEC Continuous Counsel
NYSE / NASDAQAdvising issuers and major underwriters on SEC registration, 144A debt placements, convertible debt, and continuous corporate governance compliance.
Senior Practice Partners
Seasoned corporate legal counsel recognized by Chambers Global and The American Lawyer.
Eleanor Vance, JD
Harvard Law School JD, magna cum laude. 24 years advising sovereign funds, private equity sponsors, and Fortune 100 boards on cross-border buyouts totaling over $18B.
Marcus Thorne, JD
Yale Law School JD. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Specialized in FTC merger challenges and CFIUS national security defense.