Heinz / Kraft
Scott Barshay, Cravath, Swaine & Moore (for Heinz)
Francis Aquila and Audra Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell (for Kraft)
Joshua Korff and Michael Kim, Kirkland & Ellis (financing)

Michael Kim was interviewing potential first-year associates from Columbia Law School when the messages began. Soon they were nonstop. “My iPhone was practically smoking,” he recalls. By the time he got a chance to check his phone, he had more than 200 emails, sent among Kirkland lawyers who had just been called on to advise 3G Capital and H.J. Heinz Company on the financing for Heinz’s $60 billion merger with Kraft Foods Group Inc.

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