Working closely with the global antitrust and FDI team, the M&A practice at Clifford Chance is highly experienced in handling cross-border transactions, with particular experience in the insurance, life sciences and energy sectors. Located in New York, the team is co-headed by Benjamin Sibbett and Chang-Do Gong. Sibbett regularly leads multi-jurisdictional teams to advise on big-ticket transactions in the technology space. Gong regularly handles strategic acquisitions within the energy and infrastructure space.
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Key clients
- Retail Opportunity Investments Corp
- Iberdrola
- Legal & General
- Vista Energy
- Keymed Biosciences
- Tele2 Sverige
- Informa
- Viking Global Investors
- Mannai Corporation
- Sanofi
- Mondelez
- Pfizer
- Exxon
- Mobil
- Hearst
- ALAT
- Domestic & General
- Unilever
- Airbus
Work highlights
Advised Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. in the all-cash sale of the company to Blackstone Real Estate Partners X at a value of approximately US$4 billion, including outstanding debt.
Advised Iberdrola, S.A. in its acquisition of the remaining 18.4% of theoutstanding shares of common stock of Avangrid, Inc. The transaction valued at US$2.55 billion resulted in Avangrid becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Iberdrola.
Advised Legal & General of the carve-out and sale of its U.S. protection business and a 20% interest in its U.S. pension risk transfer business to Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company for approximately $2.3 billion, subject to purchase price adjustments.
Practice head
Benjamin Sibbett; Chang-Do Gong