News About Davis Polk & Wardwell

Gibson Dunn, Davis Polk steer Intel’s upsized $20bn stock offering

Gibson Dunn acts for Intel on first public share sale since 1971 as Davis Polk steers underwriters

11 Aug 2026

Davis Polk hires Hogan Lovells M&A chief ahead of merger

Longtime Hogan dealmaker Bill Curtin joins in Washington DC just days before his former firm combines with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft

26 Jun 2026

Trio of firms guide GSK’s $10.6bn US cancer drug maker buy

Davis Polk and Slaughter and May advise GSK as Ropes & Gray counsels target Nuvalent

10 Jun 2026

Davis Polk launches Los Angeles office with longtime Skadden partner

New York firm’s first office in Southern California to be led by former Skadden litigator Jason Russell

1 May 2026

Davis Polk, Latham in for Klarna’s $1.4bn IPO as US listings rebound

Davis Polk guides Swedish fintech company’s much-anticipated listing on NYSE as Latham counsels underwriters

11 Sep 2025

Trio of top M&A firms guide CoreWeave’s $9bn Core Scientific AI acquisition

David Polk and Kirkland & Ellis advise CoreWeave as Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz acts for Core Scientific in deal to meet AI power needs

8 Jul 2025

Wachtell, Davis Polk lead $6.7bn merger of troubled drugmakers Mallinckrodt and Endo

Hogan Lovells, Paul Weiss and Ireland’s Arthur Cox and A&L Goodbody also act in tie-up of drugmakers with shared history of opioid crisis lawsuits

14 Mar 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

Skadden, Goodwin, Davis Polk act as Novo closes $16.5bn Catalent deal

Jones Day, Linklaters and Arnold & Porter also called in for the largest healthcare buyout of 2024

20 Dec 2024

Davis Polk recruits Sidley partner duo to launch London restructuring practice

Arrival of Mark Knight and Jifree Cader follows partner raids on A&O Shearman and Paul Hastings earlier in 2024

11 Nov 2024

Skadden, Davis Polk called in as Emerson completes acquisition of AspenTech

Emerson calls on longtime adviser Davis Polk as Skadden reps Aspen

6 Nov 2024

Linklaters, Davis Polk lead on Rio Tinto’s $6.7bn Arcadium acquisition

Former Shearman & Sterling co-managing partner George Casey leads Linklaters team advising Rio Tinto

9 Oct 2024

Davis Polk signals London expansion with partner raid on A&O Shearman

Wall Street leader bolsters private equity bench with hire of Gordon Milne

6 Aug 2024

Freshfields makes twin partner hire in New York from Kirkland, Davis Polk

Arrivals include M&A partner Joshua Ayal and capital markets partner Jacqueline Marino

10 Jun 2024

Davis Polk, Gibson Dunn lead on ExxonMobil $60bn mega merger

Oil giant’s acquisition of Gibson Dunn client Pioneer Natural Resources marks largest transaction so far this year

11 Oct 2023

Sullivan & Cromwell hangs on to number one spot in global M&A legal advisor rankings

US firm topped ranking by deal value, narrowly ahead of Kirkland & Ellis and Davis Polk & Wardwell, according to Refinitiv

4 Oct 2023

The elite Wall Street legal teams advising on the blockbuster A&O Shearman merger

John Malpas explores the thinking behind the appointment of Davis Polk and Simpson Thacher to advise on the planned A&O/Shearman tie-up

25 May 2023

Latham, Davis Polk advise on L’Oréal’s $2.5bn acquisition of luxury beauty brand Aēsop

Legal team led by top GC Alexandre Menais oversees brand's largest-ever M&A deal

7 Apr 2023

Cleary Gottlieb, Sullivan & Cromwell and Freshfields among firms called in for UBS’ landmark Credit Suisse rescue

Deal to shore up banking system also sees Quinn Emanuel assemble team of lawyers to advise disgruntled bondholders

20 Mar 2023

Davis Polk secures Allen & Overy partner duo to launch in Brussels

Wall Street leader joins ranks of US firms planting a flag in EU’s competition hub post-Brexit

17 Jan 2023