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LITIGATION DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR:
GENERAL LITIGATION WINNER

SKADDEN, ARPS,

SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM

Q&A What are some of the department’s most satisfy-
ing successes of the past year and why? Given
the extraordinary issues business faced during the COVID-19 OUR DEDICATION TO CLIENT SERVICE, WITH AN EMPHASIS
pandemic, we are proud that Skadden continued resolving ON CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION AND EFFICIENCY, HAS
clients’ greatest litigation challenges with solutions that align RESULTED IN A PROVEN RECORD OF SUCCESS THAT
with their business goals. This past year, our most satisfy- KEEPS CLIENTS COMING BACK TO US AND ALSO LEADS
ing litigation successes involved market-defining business NEW CLIENTS TO KNOCK ON OUR DOOR. OUR EXPERIENCE
combinations, including representing Sprint in defeating the NAVIGATING CLIENTS THROUGH THEIR MOST NOVEL
antitrust merger challenge filed by attorneys general of 13 AND COMPLEX LEGAL ISSUES POSITIONS US WELL TO
states and the District of Columbia against the company’s CREATE SMART, UNIQUE STRATEGIES THROUGHOUT THE
merger with T-Mobile after a two-week bench trial in federal COURSE OF LITIGATION, PARTICULARLY WHEN FACED
court. We also counseled LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuit- WITH UNPRECEDENTED AND UNFORESEEN CHALLENGES.
ton in expedited litigation involving one of the first COVID- OUR LITIGATORS ARE EXPERIENCED IN HANDLING
19-related material adverse event claims stemming from its “BET-THE-COMPANY” CASES THAT DEMAND A DIVERSE
$15.9 billion merger with Tiffany & Co.—the largest-ever in RANGE OF SKILLS, IN AND OUT OF THE COURTROOM.
the luxury sector and represented Neuberger Berman Group
LLC in securing multiple fast-tracked wins in various courts,
paving the way to create a new public company, Blue Owl,
with $45 billion in assets. HSBC entities in securing the dismissal of a putative antitrust
We also achieved success globally, including representing class action that clarifies U.S. courts' reach over foreign banks
Devas Multimedia Private Limited in securing the confirmation when alleged misconduct takes place abroad.
of a $1.3 billion award owed by Antrix Corporation stemming Our team also secured high-profile appellate wins on behalf
from its long-running arbitration over wrongful termination of Spencer Capital Limited and Spencer Capital Holdings Ltd.;
of an agreement to lease satellites and associated spectrum, a series of wins for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,
Qatar Football Association in combatting a challenge to its arising from a one-of-a-kind, billion-dollar structured finance
historic soccer victory in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and certain transaction; a Third Circuit post-trial affirmance for BlackRock,

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