Mr Robert Townsend III > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s ‘truly exceptional’ group caters to an impressive roster of clients in the telecoms and broadcasting industry. The team represents clients in the remit of transactions of significant value, from M&A to strategic IP and financing. Its workload also features corporate board advisory matters. Global M&A specialist Robert Townsend III heads up the team in New York and specializes in complex M&A, activist defense and corporate governance matters. At the same office, Matthew Jones and G.J. Ligelis Jr. also have notable expertise in M&A, corporate governance and general corporate matters relating to the telecoms sector.

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.