Ms Faiza Saeed > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

A robust performer in both domestic and international high-value M&A, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP also guides clients through divestitures, joint ventures, spin-offs, and complex strategic investments. Other core workflows include assisting top corporations in hostile takeovers, shareholder activist campaigns, and proxy contests. The New York-based team is collectively led by Faiza Saeed, Mark Greene, Ting Chen, Aaron Gruber, Richard Hall, and Robert Townsend. Saeed is highly regarded for her expertise in advising public companies and special committees on corporate governance and crisis management issues, while Greene concentrates on cross-border mandates and private equity and restructuring work. Chen, Gruber, Hall, and Townsend demonstrate tenacity in international M&A, activism and defense mechanisms, and fiduciary duty matters, often representing leading global brands. George Schoen is recommended for his experience in handling hostile and contested transactions.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is known for its specialism in handling corporate transactions for international and multinational corporations in the media and entertainment industry. The firm has handled a number of complex acquisitions, financings, divestitures as well as financing restructurings and reorganizations for production studios, TV networks, broadband networks and animation studios. The team is led by corporate heavyweight Faiza Saeed from New York who excels at handling multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions for the entertainment industry. She has also handled major sales of media and entertainment businesses as well as assisted with takeover defence and proxy contests for clients.

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.