News About Cravath Swaine & Moore

Cravath, Latham guide Martin Marietta’s $13.5bn Lhoist North America merger

French firm Bredin Prat also helps steer latest in string of deals in the US ​building-products industry

30 Jun 2026

Sidley Austin adds Cravath VC co-head in New York

Scott Bennett joins top-10 global firm as head of its technology capital markets group, marking latest senior loss for Cravath in New York

7 Apr 2026

Martin Marietta hires Cravath’s former global M&A co-chair as next GC

George Schoen will replace long-time legal head Roselyn Bar, who is retiring

16 Feb 2026

Paul Hastings lands litigation powerhouse from Cravath in New York

Former senior DOJ official John Buretta joins as a partner and litigation department co-head

13 Jan 2026

Cravath, Latham, guide Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros

Cahill and Cleary also score roles advising in bid intended to beat out rival Netflix

9 Dec 2025

Raft of Big Law firms line up to match pacesetter Cravath’s associate bonuses

Milbank – a first-mover in recent years – among US firms dishing out up to $140,000

25 Nov 2025

Latham & Watkins hires ‘formidable’ antitrust litigator from Cravath in New York

David Marriott is the latest in a series of partner hires in Latham’s antitrust practice this year

1 Aug 2025

Cravath, Winston & Strawn guide Chart’s $19bn Flowserve merger

Winston guides Chart and Cravath acts for Flowserve in deal to create gas and liquid technologies leader

4 Jun 2025

Cravath PE co-head defects to Sidley Austin in New York

Dave Perkins moves over after nearly 20 years at Wall Street stalwart

8 Apr 2025

A&O Shearman, Slaughters shepherd American Axle’s £1.16bn acquisition of UK car parts group Dowlais

Cravath also called in for deal that continues exodus of companies from London Stock Exchange

30 Jan 2025

Cravath, Davis Polk advise on Johnson & Johnson’s $14.6bn Intra-Cellular acquisition

Cravath advises longtime client J&J as it boosts key neurological drugs division

14 Jan 2025

Bonus season gets underway as quartet of Big Law firms fall in line with Milbank

Cravath, Paul Hastings, McDermott and Fried Frank match Milbank in handing out up to $140,000 of extra cash to associates

21 Nov 2024

Raft of firms called in for $14.5bn Nord Anglia acquisition

Latham, Cravath, Ropes and Debevoise act on international school operator’s acquisition by consortium

22 Oct 2024

Wall Street stalwarts score lead roles on Verizon’s $20bn Frontier acquisition

Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network

6 Sep 2024

Latham, S&C among raft of firms guiding Paramount’s $28bn Skydance merger

Ropes, Cravath and Simpson Thacher also acting in deal to intended to turn Hollywood icon into a tech-media hybrid

9 Jul 2024

Cleary, DLA Piper and Sidley lead on T-Mobile’s $4.4bn buy of US Cellular’s wireless operations

Clifford Chance, Cravath and Washington DC boutique Wilkinson Barker Knauer also act in deal that will bring T-Mobile four million new customers

29 May 2024

Raft of US firms raise associate pay to match Cravath scale

Paul Hastings, McDermott and Baker McKenzie among those falling in line after Cravath leapfrogged earlier raises at Milbank

30 Nov 2023

Raft of top-tier firms advise on Smurfit Kappa’s $11bn acquisition of WestRock

Advisers include Matheson, Freshfields, Wachtell, Clifford Chance, Cravath and Paul Weiss

12 Sep 2023

Linklaters, Allen & Overy and Cravath called in for Deutsche Börse’s €3.9bn SimCorp acquisition

Covington & Burling also acts on German stock exchange operator's biggest acquisition to date alongside Germany's Hengeler Mueller and Danish firms Plesner and Kromann Reumert

4 May 2023

Trio of Wall Street law firms fired up for BDT Capital’s $3.7bn Weber take-private deal

Cravath acts for BDT Capital as teams from Davis Polk and Sullivan & Cromwell advise Weber

14 Dec 2022