Our sector experience
Baker McKenzie acted as lead counsel for Acorda Therapeutics, formerly a public company listed on NASDAQ, in its USD 185 million sale of substantially all its assets to Merz Therapeutics.
The sale was implemented under the protection of Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code that involved the restructuring of USD 207 million in secured public bond debt pursuant to a Restructuring Support Agreement pursuant to a Chapter 11 Plan and a going-concern section 363 sale of INBRIJA, AMPYRA, and FAMPYRA.
Acorda Therapeutics
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Virgin Mobile Telecommunications Limited
Achieved a successful outcome in dispute with EE Ltd who had claimed lost revenue arising from an alleged breach of exclusivity provisions of the TSA between the parties.
Ooredoo Group
Advised on its landmark strategic partnership, which will see Iron Mountain take a minority equity stake in Ooredoo’s carrier-neutral data centre company, MENA Digital Hub.
Developer of networking products
Advised on the tax issues around a substantial acquisition.
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Baker McKenzie advised Eutelsat Group on its exclusive negotiations for the carve-out and partial sale of its passive ground segment infrastructure assets to form a new company which would be incorporated as a standalone legal entity.
Our cross-border, cross-specialism experts are supporting Eutelsat with the strategic negotiations for the carve-out and partial sale of its passive ground segment infrastructure assets to form a new company which would be incorporated as a standalone legal entity across 27 offices, co-ordinated out of London.
Our global team teamed seamless to provide cross-expertise support including Corporate, Employment & Compensation, Foreign Investment, Banking & Finance, Real Estate and Telecoms.
Eutelsat Group
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Global provider of connecting technologies
Led on the international employment aspects of its first and largest reduction in force advising on the approach across 35+ jurisdictions.
Embracer Group USD 247 million
Represented the client in its divestiture of certain assets from Saber Interactive for USD 247 million.
Global technology giant
Obtained a favorable court decision in a challenge against the French Tax Authority’s allegations in a case worth over EUR 1 billion.
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We advised S&P Global on its USD 44 billion merger with IHS Markit across more than 40 jurisdictions.
We were appointed lead counsel for post-acquisition integration work and various employment, compensation and benefits matters related to the integration.
Our assistance on the complex deal included aspects of the pre-merger structuring, intra-group funding steps and immediate post-merger cash repatriation steps, designing and implementing post-merger legal entity integration and rationalization.
This was one of the most complex deals done in 2022, taking over a year to complete.
S&P Global
USD 44 billion
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