We were named International Arbitration Team of the Year at the 2017 Legal Business Awards on March 23 in London.

Skadden is advising Sealed Air Corporation on its $3.2 billion carve-out sale to Bain Capital Private Equity of its Diversey Care division and the food hygiene and cleaning business within its Food Care division.

Skadden is advising the French state, Agence des Participations de l'Etat, in connection with the €1.92 billion sale of its interest in Peugeot S.A., a Euronext Paris-listed car manufacturer, to Bpifrance, a French sovereign fund jointly owned by the state and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.

Skadden is pleased to announce that Jonathan L. Marcus, former general counsel for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has joined the firm's Derivatives Group as of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice will focus on financial services regulatory and legislative advice, as well as civil and appellate litigation and government investigatory matters.

According to statistics from Lex Machina, Skadden served as defense counsel in more federal securities cases in the U.S. from 2009 to 2016 than any other firm.

Skadden secured approval for oil-and-gas operator Triangle USA Petroleum Corp.'s reorganization plan at a hearing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington.

Skadden is advising Citigroup in connection with Wirecard AG's purchase of the customer portfolio of Citi's merchant acquiring business in 11 Asia Pacific markets.

Skadden is advising PIK Group, Russia's leading residential real estate developer, on its $255 million cash tender offer for global depositary receipts listed on the London Stock Exchange and the subsequent cancellation of its U.K. listing.

Skadden is representing Intel Corporation in its approximately $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye N.V.

On March 6, Skadden obtained the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's affirmance of the dismissal of shareholder claims against directors of EMC Corporation arising out of its 2016 merger with Dell Inc.

Skadden successfully defeated an attempted interlocutory appeal of an order denying class certification in a putative securities class action brought against UBS Financial Services Incorporated of Puerto Rico and other defendants.

Skadden is representing SunEdison, Inc. in the acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. of TerraForm Global, Inc. and a controlling interest in TerraForm Power, Inc.

Skadden represented JD.com, Inc., the largest Chinese e-commerce company by revenue, in its 14.3 billion renminbi (US$2.07 billion) disposition of its 68.6 percent equity stake in JD Finance, which runs JD.com’s internet finance business.

Skadden is representing Veritas Capital in its $755 million acquisition of the capital services business of Chicago Bridge

In a win for Skadden client Castle Harlan Inc., the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division affirmed the dismissal of a seven-count complaint brought by Russian-owned companies Norcast S.ár.l and Pala Investments Ltd. arising from the 2011 sale of Norcast Wear Solutions (NWS), a Canadian mining products company.

Skadden is advising EMAS Chiyoda Subsea Limited and its affiliates on a Chapter 11 reorganization in the Southern District of Texas.

Skadden represented the ABB Group in the European Union antitrust aspects of the $934 million divestment of its high-voltage cables and power cable accessories businesses to NKT Cables.

Skadden represented Société Générale and Morgan Stanley, as joint lead arrangers and lead underwriters, and a syndicate of commercial bank lenders in connection with a $635.7 million credit facility provided to a subsidiary of EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) for the acquisition by EIG from Kinder Morgan, Inc. of a 49 percent interest in Elba Liquefaction Company, L.L.C.

Skadden is representing The AES Corporation and Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) in their $853 million acquisition of FTP Power LLC (sPower).

London international litigation and arbitration partner David Edwards contributed to a roundtable discussion on commodities litigation published by Corporate Disputes magazine.