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S&C in Europe S &C has a truly international client base, with almost half of its clients headquartered outside the US. Over 40% of these non-US clients are located in Europe. Today, more than 100 Europe-based lawyers, including 29 partners in London, Paris and Frankfurt, advise clients with respect to German, French, English, EU and US law. FRANKFURT • The Firm’s Frankfurt office opened in 1995 and today has 20 resident lawyers, including five partners. Our lawyers offer clients substantial German and US law capabilities, primarily with respect to capital markets/securities, M&A (including private equity) and financings (ranging from acquisition finance to restructuring advice). Despite our relatively small size compared to the offices of peer firms, we routinely rank among the leading law firms for German capital markets and M&A transactions. LONDON • S&C’s London office, established in 1972, comprises 65 lawyers (including 19 partners), nearly half of whom are English-law qualified. They have particular expertise in corporate finance, M&A, private equity, capital markets, credit, leveraged and acquisition finance, project development and finance, restructuring, antitrust and EU/English/German competition law, criminal defence and investigations and tax. The London office advises corporate, government and investment banking clients throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and Gulf regions, the former CIS and Central Asia. PARIS • The S&C Paris office, first opened in 1927, is the oldest of the Firm’s European offices. Today, the 20-lawyer, including 5 partners, Paris-based team conducts complementary French and US law practices, advising corporate, government and investment bank clients on a broad range of corporate and finance matters, including equity and debt capital markets, and cross-border and domestic M&A (including private equity). The office also has a significant French tax practice, as well as projects and litigation practices. More than half of our Paris-based lawyers practice French and EU law. 9
S&C in Europe continued MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS / PRIVATE EQUITY • Sullivan & Cromwell is a leader in global mergers and acquisitions and has long dominated the M&A league tables. S&C ranks first by value among law firms over the last 10 years, having acted on approximately $3.96 trillion in announced transactions worldwide. We have acted on 3 of the top 5 largest announced deals in the five-year period 2008-2012. On each transaction, our lawyers bring the same level of professionalism, attention to detail, creativity and commercial sensitivity. • In Europe, we were ranked as the leading US firm in M&A over the five-year period 2008–2012. High profile transactions of the last two years include advising Anheuser-Busch InBev (Belgium) on its $38.8 acquisition of Goose Island (US) (2011); Apollo Management (US) on its $1.3 billion acquisition, together with CVC Capital Partners (UK) of Brit Insurance (Netherlands) (2011); CGI (Canada) on its £2 billion takeover of Logica (UK) (2012); EDF (France) on the ¤1.4 billion acquisition of the shares it didn’t previously own in EDF Energies Nouvelles (France) (2011); Goldman Sachs, as financial adviser to Parmalat (Italy) on the $4.7 billion acquisition by Groupe Lactalis (France) of the shares in Parmalat it didn’t already own (2011); ING (Netherlands) on the $9 billion sale of ING Direct USA’s online banking operations to Capital One Financial (US) (2012) and Silver Lake Partners (US) and other consortium members on the sale of Skype (Luxembourg) to Microsoft (US) (2011). • Nearly all of our lawyers in Europe are involved in M&A work, from public tender and exchange offers to private equity and other negotiated transactions, to corporate and structuring advice. EUROPEAN M&A RANKINGS: INTERNATIONAL FIRMS Deals announced with any European involvement. – Ranked by dollar value ($ millions) 2008–2012 Linklaters – $903.0 Freshfields – $749.0 Sullivan & Cromwell – $580.1 Clifford Chance – $549.5 Skadden – $520.6 Allen & Overy – $447.6 Latham & Watkins – $423.6 Cleary Gottlieb – $357.2 Source: Bloomberg, January 7, 2013 Data includes representations of principals and financial advisers 10
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