Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced that it has elected eight partners and eight counsel, effective January 1, 2017.
The elections will bring the firm’s total worldwide partners to 195 and counsel to 57.
“I am proud to introduce our new global partners and counsel,” said Mark Leddy, Cleary Gottlieb’s Managing Partner. “This exceptional group of individuals embodies Cleary Gottlieb’s commitment to internationalism and reflects the high caliber of talent we have developed globally and across practice areas. Our new partners and counsel, collectively, speak Cantonese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish. I congratulate these lawyers on their dedication to legal excellence, and to delivering the highest-quality service to our clients around the world.”
The new partners and counsel are resident in the firm’s Brussels, Hong Kong, London, New York, Rome, and Washington offices. Their broad spectrum of practice areas includes antitrust, banking and financial institutions, capital markets, intellectual property, leveraged and acquisition finance, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, private funds, real estate, and restructuring.
The Brussels office sees two promotions to counsel:
Niklas Maydell, counsel, practices EU and international competition law, in particular in the context of complex merger control proceedings and antitrust investigations. He is resident in the Brussels office. Niklas also advises clients in EU law-related litigation and arbitration proceedings, as well as sector-specific EU regulatory matters. Recent matters include representing Allergan before the European Commission and multiple other antitrust agencies globally in connection with Allergan’s proposed $160 billion merger with Pfizer and with the industry-transforming $39 billion sale of its generic pharmaceuticals business to Teva; Lafarge before the European Commission in connection with its €40 billion merger with Holcim, creating the world's largest cement supplier, as well as in connection with Lafarge’s and Holcim’s €6.5 billion asset disposal to CRH, one of the largest remedies packages ever negotiated with the European Commission; Gazprom in its $2 billion complex asset swap with Wintershall, involving an exchange of interests in Russian gas fields for European gas production, distribution, and storage assets; and Samsung Electronics before the European Commission and several other key antitrust regulators in the pending $1.05 billion sale of its worldwide printer business to HP Inc.
Carlo Meert, counsel, focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. He is resident in the Brussels office. Carlo advised CVC in several projects, including its acquisition of the European activities of the Campbell Soup Company; and Dexia in its sale of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg to Precision Capital and the Luxembourg State. He also advised Western Digital Corporation in its acquisition of Amplidata; Anbang Insurance Group in the acquisition of Delta Lloyd Bank Belgique; Umicore in its proposed sale of its Zinc Chemicals business; and IMS Health in its acquisition of Forcea.
