Only a few days after Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom clinched a key role counseling Mondelez International on its formation of a $5 billion coffee joint venture, the firm has also snagged the lead role representing Hillshire Brands on its $6.6 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods.
Hillshire and Mondelez are the two successors to Sara Lee Corp., the suburban Chicago-based consumer goods giant that broke up in 2011. Rodd Schreiber, head of the corporate practice at Skadden in Chicago, took the lead for Sara Lee in the breakup, according to our previous reports, with its coffee and tea unit becoming Mondelez and its former food business turning into Hillshire.
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