Mr James Michelson > Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

At Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP, ‘the team covers all aspects of DCM work and is very professional in how it deals with even the most complex structures‘. The firm acts for issuers, underwriters and many other market participants in complex, cross-border deals, notably Yankee bonds, and it has considerable English and US law capability in the London office. ‘We have been impressed with the thoroughness of the document production and their proactive project management‘, says a client of the practice led by European head of capital markets Danny Tricot, who recently acted for world-leading medical technology business Becton, Dickinson and Company on the establishment of its its $2.75bn multi-currency euro commercial paper programme. US capital markets partner James McDonaldand associate James Michelson, who assisted Tricot with Nokia’s €700m tender offer for notes issued under its EMTN programme,  are key players in the practice.