Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has a strong financial services focus, advising domestic and multinational corporations, private equity firms, and investment banks on complex transactions, including M&A, spin-offs, and joint ventures. The firm also has vast experience with bankruptcy tax matters, ERISA issues, and REMIC taxation. Practice lead Linda Swartz is ‘knowledgeable, practical, and personable,’ specializing in corporate reorganizations, debt restructurings, and distressed M&A. Andrew Carlon focuses on corporate transactions such as cross-border restructurings and a variety of spin-offs, including pro-rata spin-offs and IPO-spin combinations. Jon Brose advises on commercial transactions and capital market activities and has experience with a variety of investment strategies. William Walsh is also a key figure within the group. All lawyers mentioned are based in New York.
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‘Linda Swartz — knowledgeable, practical, personable.’
Key clients
- BNP Paribas
- AlTi Tiedemann Global (“AlTi”)
- AngioDynamics
- Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp.
- Integrated Whale Media Investments (“IWM”)
- Multinational drink and brewing company
- Integrated Whale Media Investments (“IWM”)
- A number of regional banks and Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs)
- A leading global alternative investment manager
- Multinational drink and brewing company
Work highlights
- Representing Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (“Assured”) in connection with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s restructuring of approximately $73 billion of outstanding bond debt, the largest-ever U.S. municipal debt restructuring and the first bankruptcy of any U.S. territory.
- Representing AlTi Tiedemann Global, a publicly traded, international wealth management and alternative investments corporation with approximately $68 billion in assets, in securing a strategic investment of up to $450 million in growth capital from Allianz X and Constellation Wealth Capital (CWC).
- Representing BNP Paribas in its $5 billion strategic financing and capital markets collaboration with ATLAS SP Partners.
Lawyers
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Leading associates
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William Walsh
Practice head
Linda Swartz
Other key lawyers
Andrew Carlon; Jon Brose; Gary Silverstein; Mark Howe; William Walsh