Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s New York-based environmental transaction practice is regularly turned to by corporate clients and their boards of directors on business transactions, encompassing M&A, divestitures, and financings. The firm provides assistance to clients on the identification, assessment, and allocation of environmental liabilities in corporate transactions, covering remediations and disclosure requirements. Practice head Matthew Morreale is engaged by clients on environmental matters related to M&A deals, securities offerings, and financings. Morreale combines this with astute knowledge of environmental-related proceedings and investigations. Annmarie Terraciano is a key advisor to clients from a range of industries, including heavy manufacturing, chemical production, and transport, on M&A deals, capital markets transactions, and financings.
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‘Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP ‘s excellent and unique in terms of responsiveness, timeliness of its responses, and the high quality of its advice. Their service level is excellent regardless of the transaction, how quickly it's moving, and how many transactions they're working on.’
‘The quality of their work product is excellent, and their advice is thoughtful and takes into consideration both market terms and what fits our business objectives. When more extensive conversations with us are needed, they quickly pull together the right team of subject matter experts to ensure we are achieving our objectives with the transaction and there are no surprises.’
‘Matthew Morreale is excellent in every way, especially on transactional matters, but also on reporting, sustainability, and day-to-day environmental matters that are existing or emerging.’
Key clients
- Aquarion Water Authority
- Deutsche Bahn
- Frontier
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kenvue
- Martin Marietta
- Occidental Petroleum
- Paramount (Special Committee)
- PepsiCo
- Vista Outdoor
Work highlights
Advised Frontier in connection with its pending $20billion acquisition by Verizon Communications Inc.
Advised Occidental Petroleum in connection with the pending $9.7billion sale of its chemical business, OxyChem, to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Advised Martin Marietta in connection with its acquisition of Premier Magnesia and its pending exchange of certain assets with Quikrete Holdings, Inc.
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Matthew Morreale
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Annmarie Terraciano