Two deals in a day for Skadden's Tindell
Monday was a busy day for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom corporate partner Jeffrey Tindell, writes The American Lawyer. The 58-year-old M&A specialist was the lead deal lawyer for DRS Technologies in its $5.2bn (£2.67bn) acquisition by Italian defense contractor Finmeccanica and for Comtech Telecommunications on its $224m (£115.1m) acquisition of fellow telecoms group Radyne. Both deals were announced on May 12.
May 15, 2008 at 02:03 AM
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Monday was a busy day for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom corporate partner Jeffrey Tindell, writes The American Lawyer. The 58-year-old M&A specialist was the lead deal lawyer for DRS Technologies in its $5.2bn (£2.67bn) acquisition by Italian defense contractor Finmeccanica and for Comtech Telecommunications on its $224m (£115.1m) acquisition of fellow telecoms group Radyne. Both deals were announced on May 12.
"It's been a busy past couple of weeks," says Tindell, a 32-year Skadden veteran. Tindell says DRS is a longtime client of the firm while Comtech "came on in the past six months or so" after a referral from an investment banker.
Assisting Tindell on the DRS deal was cross-border transactions partner Ivan Schlager in Washington DC and M&A counsel Paola Lozano in New York. Washington-based Skadden antitrust partner Benjamin Crisman provided counsel to Comtech.
Arnold & Porter represented Rome-based Finmeccanica, Italy's largest engineering and aerospace group, in its acquisition of DRS, a military electronics manufacturer. Sullivan & Cromwell served as counsel to a syndicated loan facility Finmeccanica is using to finance the acquisition.
The billion-dollar deal was Sullivan's first for the client. The firm's London-based transaction team included Richard Morrissey, European head of M&A and co-head of the firm's private equity group; corporate partner Benjamin Perry; European counsel Oderisio de Vito Piscicelli; and associate Alexander Garnier.
DLA Piper served as legal adviser to Radyne in Comtech's tender offer for the Phoenix-based telecoms company, whose customers include the US Department of Defense. M&A partner Steven Pidgeon, the co-managing partner of DLA's Phoenix office, US M&A practice group chair Diane Frankle, M&A partner David Lewis, antitrust partner Paolo Morante, business transactions partner Mark Lehberg, litigation associate Laura Kam and corporate associates Rebecca Davis, Paul McDermott and David Pendergast comprised DLA's Radyne deal team.
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