Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Standing out for its combination of both legal, financial, and commercial acumen, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP  boasts an agile practice, routinely handling M&A for public and private companies, investors, and portfolio companies. Working across the automotive, tech, banking, and energy sectors, the New York-based group also handles activist campaigns, and assists with corporate governance matters and unsolicited transactions. Scott Barshay is experienced in high-value M&A in the aerospace and consumer sectors, Robert Kindler is a go-to for proxy contests and takeover defense matters, and Jeffrey Marell is reputed for his strengths in private equity and global M&A, in addition to carve-out transactions. Industry veteran Robert Schumer assists corporations and boards of directors on M&A structuring and fiduciary duties considerations, while Krishna Veeraraghavan routinely handles cross-border M&A. Steven Williams, James Langston, and Laura Turano are well-versed in private equity, public company transactions, and mergers-of-equals.