Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is a leading firm in the market for clients across numerous sectors, including oil and gas, mining, energy, chemicals, manufacturing, and construction. The group is highly active on climate-related disclosure requirement guidance, including California’s climate-related disclosure rules and laws. Loyti Cheng heads up the New York-based department and has been a longstanding advisor on environmental and ESG disclosure obligations and climate-related matters arising out of corporate transactions. David Zilberberg is another key member of the team, serving clients from environmentally sensitive industries, including oil and gas exploration and transportation, who require assistance with complex corporate and real estate transactions. Michael Comstock primarily focuses on M&A, divestitures, securities offerings, and bank financings, as well as seasoned experience in ESG-linked financings.
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Accolades

Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge

Key clients

  • American Industrial Partners
  • Antares Capital
  • BDT & MSD Partners
  • Circle
  • Comcast
  • CoreWeave
  • Dollar Tree
  • Elliott Investment Management
  • Endo
  • HNI Corporation
  • IREN Limited
  • New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG)

Work highlights

Advised the joint book-running managers and representatives of the several underwriters in connection with a registered offering by Eli Lilly and Company of $6.75 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes.
Advising CoreWeave on its $9 billion all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific.
Advised Endo on its $6.7 billion stock and cash merger with Mallinckrodt plc.

Lawyers

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Practice head

Loyti Cheng

Other key lawyers

David Zilberberg; Michael Comstock