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Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law. Today, S&C is a leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets.
Clients of the firm are nearly evenly divided between U.S. and non-U.S. entities. They include industrial and commercial companies; financial institutions; private funds; governments; educational, charitable and cultural institutions; and individuals, estates and trusts. S&C’s client base is exceptionally diverse, a result of the firm’s extraordinary capacity to tailor work to specific client needs.
S&C comprises more than 900 lawyers who serve clients around the world through a network of 13 offices, located in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. The Firm is headquartered in New York.
Latham & Watkins is an international law firm providing clients across the globe with exceptional legal services and innovative solutions to their most complex business issues and disputes. Clients turn to Latham for help with enterprise transforming transactions and to defend bet-the company-disputes as well as day-to-day guidance and preventative advice. Latham lawyers deliver market-leading service in more than 60 internationally recognized practices, regional and industry-focused teams, ranging from financial services to technology, oil and gas to retail. With more than 2,700 lawyers across a global platform spanning 14 countries, we are positioned in the world’s major financial, business, and regulatory centers to serve clients—wherever they may be. Affirming the firm culture and strong client relationships, Latham was included on The American Lawyer’s prestigious “A-List” for the 21st consecutive year and honored as a 2023 Texas Powerhouse for guiding numerous high-value transactions and major litigation wins for clients in the state. www.lw.com
Aon
Aon's M&A and Transaction Solutions is a leading M&A advisor and innovator of solutions and services that help secure investments, maximize deal value and drive transaction success by solving wide-ranging issues facing dealmakers throughout the deal lifecycle. Solutions and services include transactional insurance instruments such as representations and warranties insurance and tax and litigation insurance; specialized due diligence, including people and human capital, insurance, cyber and intellectual property; working capital solutions; and digital, cyber, and intellectual property transaction advisory capabilities. Working across industries and covering more than 35 countries, Aon's highly experienced teams use proprietary industry data and insights drawn from the more than 4,000 global deals supported annually.
For more than 130 years, Jackson Walker has played a vital role in the growth and development of Texas business. Since our founding in 1887, our attorneys have represented some of the most influential companies in the state in key industries that shaped the course of Texas history, including railroads, the media, and oil and gas exploration. Today, we remain firmly rooted in Texas while serving clients around the globe. With more than 500 attorneys in our six offices, we serve clients around the world in a broad range of practices and industries. We have extensive experience representing publicly and privately held companies, private equity funds and hedge funds in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances. But we’re more than just deal lawyers. We also serve as outside general counsel to hundreds of companies, working closely with management to provide pragmatic solutions to legal problems as they arise. Whether it’s negotiating commercial contracts, improving corporate governance, or navigating securities regulations, clients look to us for guidance on the issues that affect their businesses every day. Our clients know they can count on us to deliver personalized service, legal experience, and added value. We invite you to learn more about Jackson Walker at jw.com.
At WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) we provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital. Leveraging the global view and local expertise of our colleagues serving 140 countries and markets, we help you sharpen your strategy, enhance organizational resilience, motivate your workforce and maximize performance. Working shoulder to shoulder with you, we uncover opportunities for sustainable success – and provide perspective that moves you.
We are trusted investment banking advisors to business owners and senior executives of leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies and to public and privately held companies around the world. Our services include mergers and acquisitions advisory, private funds and capital markets advisory, and valuations and fairness opinions. As one tightly integrated team of more than 1,000 professionals in more than 25 offices in 15 countries, we offer an unobstructed perspective on the global private capital markets, backed by superb execution and a deep commitment to client success. With extensive industry knowledge and relationships, timely market intelligence and strategic insights, we forge deep, productive client relationships that endure for decades. Connect with us to learn more at www.lincolninternational.com. www.lincolninternational.com/
SRS Acquiom LLC
SRS Acquiom has been a service provider to the private M&A market since 2008 and works regularly with VC/PE fund clients and their counsel in the specific roles of escrow agent, paying agent and shareholder representative for those transactions. In addition to our work in those roles, we have a robust thought leadership group who publishes M&A data studies, white papers and other materials that professional investors in private companies find useful.
