Mr Daniel Cerqueira > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Two Manhattan West
375 Ninth Avenue
New York 10001
United States

Position

Daniel J. Cerqueira focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, activist defense and general corporate matters. Mr. Cerqueira’s clients have included AerCap, Altra, AmerisourceBergen, Ashland, Biogen, Blue Current, Brookfield Asset Management, Buckeye Partners, Cincinnati Bell, Disney, DRI Capital, FS Investments, GreenSky, Hasbro, Hertz, Hibu Group, IBM, Illumina, Occidental Petroleum, Pinnacle Foods, RedHill Biopharma, SMBC Aviation Capital, Southwest Gas, Starwood Hotels and Univision.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism

A central part of the firm’s M&A capabilities, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s shareholder activism practice has experience dealing with all of the major activist groups, with an interdisciplinary practice that can equally prepare boards for future challenges and react to a settlement or a proxy fight. Advising public companies, boards of directors and special committees alike, the team is led by co-chairs Robert Townsend III, an activism preparation specialist, and Faiza Saeed, who leads on hostile takeover attempts and proxy contests. Leading junior partners are Daniel Cerqueira and Andrew Wark, who lead on co-operation agreements, shareholder rights plan adoptions and reaction to unsolicited tender offers, as well as proxy contests. All attorneys based in New York.