Skadden helped Barclays Capital Inc. successfully resolve parallel Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations into the company's secondary market trading of residential mortgage-backed securities.

Skadden announced today that Neil Sacker has joined the firm’s Los Angeles Entertainment Group as of counsel.

Skadden announced today that Neil Sacker has joined the firm’s Los Angeles Entertainment Group as of counsel.

Skadden won a motion to dismiss claims brought by a qui tam relator against Kinetic Concepts, Inc. under the federal False Claims Act.

Skadden advised Didi Chuxing on a new financing round that raised more than $5.5 billion to support its global strategy and continued investments in artificial intelligence-based technologies.

Skadden is advising Airbnb, Inc. on its acquisition of Germany-based fewoVista S.L.

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.