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    The lawyers in our General Practice Group provide strategic advice and innovative solutions across a spectrum of practice areas to many of the world’s most influential companies. In stable economies and volatile times alike, our cross-disciplinary teams drawn from 13 offices on four continents work closely with clients on complex matters that shape industries around the world.

    A distinguishing feature of our General Practice Group is that our lawyers are generalists, trained in many facets of corporate law and organized into seven subgroups. Lawyers from our General Practice Group work together as one team across our preeminent M&A, Financial Services, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation, Finance, Restructuring, Intellectual Property, and Real Estate practices, providing advice to clients on their most significant transactions. Our generalist approach produces the most well-rounded, seasoned transactional lawyers who can tailor advice for clients on all aspects of their unique situations.

    Spotlight

    Carsten Berrar, Peter Klormann and Lea Detambel Author Chapter of Chambers’ Corporate M&A 2026: Germany

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    S&C Lawyers Across the U.S. and Europe Contribute to Global Legal Post’s Global M&A Law Guide 2026

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    S&C Advises Wren House in Agreement To Form 50/50 Joint Venture with T-Mobile

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    Frank Aquila and Catherine Yuh Author Financier Worldwide Article on Transatlantic M&A Activity and Trends

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    OpenAI Microsoft Announce Next Phase Partnership

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    Experience

    • AT&T in its spin-off of WarnerMedia and its $108.7 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
    • California Resources Corporation in the formation of a joint venture with Brookfield Renewable to create a carbon management partnership dedicated to carbon capture and sequestration.
    • Canadian Pacific Railway in its $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, creating the first rail network connecting the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

    • Credit Suisse in its merger with UBS, marking the first time that two global systemically important banks have combined.
    • Elon Musk, xAI and X on the $113 billion merger of xAI and X.
    • FTX as debtors counsel in its Chapter 11 proceedings.
    • OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT and Dall-E, in its ongoing multi-billion dollar partnership with Microsoft including in the development of supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s groundbreaking independent AI research, and enabling the deployment of OpenAI’s models in Microsoft’s consumer and enterprise products.
    • Seagen in its $43 billion acquisition by Pfizer, including securing clearances from the Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission and other regulators. The deal is the largest-ever all-cash change of control in the biopharmaceutical industry.
    • SoftBank Group on the $5.23 billion initial public offering of its subsidiary Arm Holdings, the largest IPO of 2023.
    • Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) in its $60 billion 50/50 merger with Peugeot, creating the fourth-largest automaker in the world.
    • Tiffany & Co. in its $16 billion acquisition by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the largest deal in the luxury retail sector.

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