S&C was highly recommended in the
Competition Team of the Year,
Corporate Team of the Year and
Restructuring Team of the Year categories at the Legal Business Awards for 2018. The Competition category praised Juan Rodriguez for his work “[a]dvising Diebold on its $1.8bn acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf, a deal that involved the combination of the world’s second and third-largest manufacturers of ATMs.” The Corporate category commended Timothy Emmerson, Ben Perry and Olivier de Vilmorin for “[a]dvising French-listed Elis on its $2.76bn takeover of UK-listed rival Berendsen, which was undergoing an extensive operational restructuring at the time.” The Restructuring category singled out Christopher Howard for his “key role on one of 2017’s largest restructurings through its advice to the co-ordinating committee of bank creditors on the restructuring of Abengoa.”