Mr Robert Townsend III > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Robert Townsend III
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Robert I. Townsend, III is Co-Chair of Cravath’s Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. His practice focuses primarily on all types of M&A transactions, corporate governance matters and activist defense. Mr. Townsend’s clients have included ADT, altafiber, AmerisourceBergen, Anheuser‑Busch InBev, Aon, Atlas Air, Brink’s, Brunswick, Cable One, Canadian National Railway, City Brewing, Conduent, Crown Castle, DiaSorin, Frontier Communications, GreenSky, J.D. Power, Johnson & Johnson, Light & Wonder, MacAndrews & Forbes, Martin Marietta, Nestlé, Olin, Oshkosh, OUTFRONT Media, Pinnacle Foods, Quest Diagnostics, Stanley Black & Decker, Univision, US Foods and Valvoline.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
(Leading partners)Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
‘s corporate team works closely with a growing list of clients in the telecoms and broadcast sector. The practice advises on a full range of corporate transactions, from M&A to financings, as well as tax, strategic IP and ESG matters. It is active in sector-significant transactions, representing Echostar’s board of directors in the corporation’s merger with DISH Network. Based in New York, Robert Townsend III is co-head of the firm’s global M&A team and, beyond his focus on M&A, handles corporate governance matters and is recognized for his activism defense work in the telecoms and broadcast space.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Telecoms and broadcast: transactions United States > Media, technology and telecoms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism