Alison Ressler and Eric Krautheimer Again Named to California Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers” 

M&A partners Alison Ressler and Eric Krautheimer were named to the “Top 100 Lawyers” by the Daily Journal, which “celebrates California attorneys doing cutting-edge legal work.” Alison has been recognized on this list for over a decade, and this is Eric’s fifth consecutive year on the list.

Alison is a leading authority on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital markets, whose 30-year career includes iconic deals. “This year was an opportunity to show what makes us so special,” Alison said. “The legal profession is a service business, and we served our clients well even as we supported each other.” For more than a decade, Alison has advised Ares Management Corp., which closed four major deals in the past two years. Alison counseled Ares and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in acquiring a minority interest in TricorBraun, and she advised Ares in connection with Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets’ agreement to acquire Cincinnati Bell Inc. for $2.9 billion. “During the months of lockdown I completed as many deals as I ever have in my career,” Alison said. Read Alison’s profile here.

For more than 25 years, Eric has represented some of the world’s most important enterprises in transformative transactions, including the largest deal for a pre-commercial biopharmaceutical company and the largest all-cash takeover of a public company. Eric is currently leading S&C’s AT&T team in a deal in which its WarnerMedia unit will merge with Discovery Inc. to create a standalone entertainment company, Warner Bros. Discovery. He also advised AT&T in its agreement with TPG Capital that established New DirecTV, an entity with an enterprise value of $16.25 billion that owns and operates AT&T’s U.S. video business unit. “Both the TPG and WarnerMedia transactions are the kind of highly structured and complicated deals we live to work on,” Eric said. Read Eric’s profile here.