Skadden has been named among the top firms for cybersecurity and data privacy issues in "BTI Law Firms Best at Cybersecurity: Corporate Counsel Rank the Law Firms Leading the Charge on Change."

Skadden is advising AdvancePierre Foods Holdings, Inc. on its $4.2 billion acquisition by Tyson Foods, Inc.

Skadden is advising Becton, Dickinson and Company on its $24 billion acquisition of C. R. Bard, Inc.

Skadden secured a highly favorable result for the University of North Carolina (UNC) by persuading the North Carolina Court of Appeals to unanimously affirm the lower court's dismissal with prejudice of claims brought by former UNC student-athletes.

Skadden represented First Solar, Inc. in the sale to a subsidiary of Capital Dynamics Inc. of the Class B membership interests (the management stake) in the Moapa project, a 250-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant in Clark County, Nevada.

Skadden represented China Petrochemical Corporation, also known as Sinopec Group, in the issuance of international bonds worth $3.4 billion.

Skadden is representing the Japan Atomic Power Company in its establishment of a joint venture company, JExel Nuclear, with Exelon Generation Company, LLC to license and deploy the Exelon Nuclear Management Model in major nuclear power projects around the world.

Skadden is advising Forestar Group Inc. in its $605 million merger with Starwood Capital Group, under which Starwood will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Forestar's common stock.

Skadden advised Nomura International plc and SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited as international underwriters' counsel on Lixil Viva Corporatioin's ¥40.2 billion initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Skadden is representing China-based Tahoe Investment Group Co., Ltd. in its $150 million merger with Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc.

Skadden has secured the affirmance of a trial court's December 2015 decision in favor of client Robert Mallano and a class of more than 3,000 state judges, justices and judicial pensioners in a declaratory judgment action brought against the California controller and board of administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System.

On April 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit remanded an order issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that dismissed a complaint filed by solar energy developer and Skadden client NextEra Desert Center Blythe, LLC.

Skadden secured the dismissal of a shareholder derivative suit brought against current and former members of the board of directors of Sempra Energy accusing them of breach of fiduciary duty based on a 2015 natural gas leak at a well located within Sempra subsidiary SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon underground storage facility.

Skadden is advising Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. on its $1.5 billion acquisition by a newly formed entity.

Skadden achieved a favorable ruling on behalf of Barclays PLC in litigation with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California charging Barclays and four former executives with manipulating the energy market, and had sought an approximately $500 million penalty from Barclays. FERC took the position that the action it filed against Barclays should not be governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and that no trial was necessary. Rather, FERC concluded that Barclays was liable based on its own investigation, in which Barclays had no ability to compel witnesses to testify or to produce documents.

Skadden secured a complete victory on behalf of Saoud Al-Mohannadi, vice president of the Qatar Football Association and Asian Football Confederation, defeating charges brought by the Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee.

Skadden is pleased to announce the 2017 new partners.

Skadden is representing JAB Holding Company in its $7.5 billion acquisition of Panera Bread Company.

Skadden represented Amazon.com, Inc. in a victory against the IRS involving one of the largest transfer pricing cases in decades and the first involving e-commerce. At issue in the case was the determination of the proper tax due upon Amazon's creation of a European headquarters.

Skadden is advising E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company on the sale of a portion of its crop protection business, including certain research and development capabilities, to FMC Corporation, in exchange for substantially all of FMC's health and nutrition business and a balancing payment of $1.625 billion.