Slaughter and May and Davis Polk & Wardwell together pick up £9m for their advice on the £24.3bn transaction, one of the largest ever European M&A deals and SoftBank's biggest buy to date. UK-based tech business ARM had turned to Slaughters senior partner Steve Cooke to advise it on the historic takeover, alongside partners Chris McGaffin and Jordan Ellison. They worked with a US team from Davis Polk & Wardwell that included managing partner Tom Reid and partners Reuven Young, John Reynolds and Arthur Burke.
Softbank
On the SoftBank side, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Morrison & Foerster together received £5.5m. Freshfields global M&A co-head Ben Spiers and corporate partner Stephen Hewes advised the telecommunications company from London, alongside MoFo Tokyo managing partner Ken Siegel and London head of corporate Graeme Sloan.
Sources: The Lawyer; Legal Business; Scheme document
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