Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP’s New York-based experienced team maintains a strong position in the market advising an impressive roster of corporate clients, including Brookfield Renewables and Frontier, across a comprehensive offering of environmental-related transactions spanning from ESG regulatory issues to green bond financing and mergers and acquisitions. A key example of this is practice head Matthew Morreale, who is praised by his clients as ‘one of the best environmental deal lawyers in the market’ and advises them on environmental matters related to mergers and acquisitions, financings, and investigations, as well as, ESG reporting. Working alongside Morreale, is the ’technically excellent’ Annmarie Terraciano , who is a crucial name to clients on capital market transactions, financing, environmental-related indemnification disputes, as well as mergers and acquisitions, where a recent work highlight of hers is advising on Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P’s acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company.
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Témoignages
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‘First-rate environmental and regulatory deal lawyers. Commercial, astute, and can-do. A pleasure to work with.’
‘Matt is excellent and one of the best environmental deal lawyers in the market. Annmarie is just brilliant - she's commercial, technically excellent, and just gets things done.’
‘They are very client-focused and responsive, and can easily handle multiple matters at the same time seemingly without any drain on their resources, which reflects Cravath's strong bench strength excellent partner management, and involvement with multiple teams.’
‘Matt Morreale and Annmarie Terraciano understand the very complex regulatory impacts on a company, as well as the various emerging issues regarding GHG, climate change, and other environmental matters.’
‘Cravath is knowledgeable in the environmental area and very responsive.’
‘I value the quality of their advice, their work to find solutions to challenges, and their availability when needed.’
Clients clés
- Amentum
- Brookfield Renewable
- EchoStar (Special Committee)
- Frontier
- IBM
- Newcrest
- Martin Marietta
- UScellular (Independent Directors)
- Viatris
- WestRock
Points forts
- Provided environmental advice to Brookfield Renewable in its strategic partnership with Cameco to acquire Westinghouse for $8 billion.
- Provided environmental advice to WestRockin its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock.
- Provided environmental advice to Martin Marietta in its $2.1 billion sale of its South Texas cement business and related concrete operations to CRH and in its $2.05 billion acquisition of aggregates operations from Blue Water Industries.
Avocats
Hall of Fame
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Responsable de la pratique
Matthew Morreale
Autres avocats clés
Annmarie Terraciano