Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP ‘delivers fabulous client service and responsiveness and has a strong team for middle-market M&A‘. It acts in the full range of M&A deals, including auction bids, going-private matters, hostile takeover bids,  joint ventures and LBOs; other areas of strength are minority investments, open-market purchase programs, defensive planning measures, proxy fights, restructurings, spin-offs and stock acquisitions. The firm’s deputy chair Kenneth Lefkowitz, who is ‘commercially minded and efficient‘, led advice to Singapore-based Grab, a technology company offering ride-hailing transport services, in its acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia business. The co-M&A practice chairs are James Modlin, who has advised on transactions involving the specialty chemicals, life sciences and media sector and ‘has great understanding of how to complete a transaction‘, and Avner Bengera, who focuses on public and private M&A, joint ventures and private equity deals involving US and non-US companies. Modlin acted for Chiltern International, a specialty global contract research organization, in its sale to global life sciences company LabCorp; and Bengera assisted the corporate governance and conflicts committee of TerraForm Power (TP)’s board of directors with the sale of a majority stake in renewable energy company TP to global alternative asset manager Brookfield Asset Management. Charles Samuelson and Michael Traube  are also highly rated; Lefkowitz, Samuelson and Traube ‘will run through a wall for their clients‘. David Schwartz left for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s New York office. All the above-listed partners are in New York.