The M&A litigation team at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP regularly appears before the Delaware Court of Chancery, representing public and private companies across a broad range of industries. The practice excels in handling take-private transactions, contested takeovers, management buyouts, and change-in-control transactions. The team is jointly led out of New York by Tariq Mundiya, Sameer Advani, and Shaimaa Hussein. Mundiya focuses on internal investigations and securities, and corporate litigation under federal and state securities laws. Advani litigates matters in bankruptcy courts and under foreign and domestic arbitration rules, and Hussein represents multinational corporations and financial institutions in commercial litigation and enforcement actions.
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Key clients
- Special Litigation Committee of the Board of Directors of Apollo Global Management, Inc.
- Warburg Pincus and Six Warburg Pincus investment funds
- Directors of Kayne Anderson NextGen Energy & Infrastructure, Inc.
- CenturyLink Inc. and its officers and directors
- Directors and Officers of Spruce Power Holding Corporation f/k/a XL Fleet Corp. f/k/a Pivotal Investment Corporation II
- Sarissa Capital Management LP and Alexander J. Denner
- Certain BlackRock Closed-End Management Investment Funds
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Leading partners
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Sameer Advani
Practice head
Tariq Mundiya; Sameer Advani; Shaimaa Hussein