Deal Watch: Five Firms Advise on Amazon's Bid to Buy Whole Foods
Wachtell, Weil, Sullivan & Cromwell, Paul Hastings and Latham & Watkins are advising various parties on e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc.'s $13.4 billion offer to acquire organic upscale grocery Whole Foods Markets Inc.
June 18, 2017 at 11:51 AM
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Amazon.com Inc. announced Friday its plans to purchase the organic upscale grocery company Whole Foods Market Inc. in a $13.7 billion mega-deal, one that has yielded key roles for four Am Law 100 firms, as noted by sibling publication Texas Lawyer.
Sullivan & Cromwell M&A partners Krishna Veeraraghavan and Eric Krautheimer are leading a team from he firm advising Amazon as the online retail behemoth moves into the grocery business and physical stores. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz executive committee co-chair Daniel Neff and M&A partners Trevor Norwitz and Sabastian Niles are heading up Whole Foods' outside transactional team.
The transaction itself is a first for Wachtell and Sullivan & Cromwell on behalf of Whole Foods and Amazon, respectively. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Dechert represented Whole Foods in the grocery store chain's failed merger attempt with Wild Oats Marketplace in 2009. (Wachtell partner George Conway III, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, co-wrote a piece questioning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's decision in that case.)
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