One Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005-1413
US
Tel: +1 212 530 5000
Fax: +1 212 530 5219
Web: www.milbank.com
Chairman: Mel M. Immergut
Other US offices:
Los Angeles
601 South Figueroa Street,
30th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017-5735
Tel: +1-213-892-4000
Fax: +1-213-629-5063
Contact partner: Kenneth Baronsky
Email: KBaronsky@milbank.com
Washington DC
1850 K Street, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: +1-202-835-7500
Fax: +1-202-263-7586
Contact partner: Glenn S. Gerstell
Email: Gerstell@milbank.com
Other offices:
Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Munich, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo
Firm profile:
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a pre-eminent global law
firm that for more than 140 years has provided innovative legal
solutions in many of the world's largest, most complex, "first-ever"
corporate transactions and litigation. The firm's clients range from
prominent multinational financial, industrial and commercial enterprises
to governments, institutions and individuals.
Areas of practice:
Corporate: Milbank handles negotiated and hostile
transactions, including mergers and consolidations, stock and asset
acquisitions and dispositions, strategic alliances, joint ventures,
proxy contests and tender offers, leveraged and management buyouts,
restructurings and bankruptcy reorganisations, and other complex,
cutting-edge transactions. Milbank's corporate attorneys also advise
clients on corporate governance and executive compensation matters.
Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits: Milbank's
broad Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice includes
advice on matters in connection with corporate transactions and
financial restructurings. Milbank advises clients in the design and
implementation of compensation and benefits programs and has significant
expertise in the fiduciary responsibility rules relating to pension
plan investments.
Finance: Milbank represents banks and other institutional
investors in a wide array of large-ticket financing transactions,
covering acquisition finance, leveraged buyout finance, debt
restructurings and workouts, trade finance, cross-border financing
transactions, debt arbitrage and equity investments by financial
institutions.
Financial Restructuring: Milbank handles some of the most
prominent and complex bankruptcy, distressed and reorganization matters
in the US and abroad, representing a wide range of clients, including
companies in need of financial restructuring, official and ad hoc
committees of creditors, leading financial institutions and hedge funds,
lenders, equity security holders, acquirers, trustees and receivers.
Intellectual Property: Milbank provides comprehensive and
sophisticated IP services to the world's leading businesses, including
complex, multiparty litigation; difficult prosecution of patent
trademark and copyright applications; and multimillion dollar core
technology and trademark licenses.
Leveraged Finance: Milbank represents underwriters, lenders,
private equity sponsors, strategic investors, issuers and borrowers on a
broad array of financings, including first-and second-lien loans,
bridge loans, secured and unsecured high-yield bonds and mezzanine
financing; leveraged buyouts, other acquisition financings, leveraged
recapitalizations and going-private transactions; working capital and
letter-of-credit facilities; financings for investment-grade and
sub-investment-grade borrowers; debtor-in-possession financings and exit
financings; restructurings; vendor financings; structured financings;
and asset-based lending and securitization.
Litigation & Arbitration: Milbank's litigators serve as
lead counsel in some of the largest, most significant and highest
profile disputes in the world. They represent clients in cases ranging
from multi-jurisdiction securities litigations to
white-collar/regulatory investigations to complex disputes involving
intellectual property, insurance, mergers & acquisitions, antitrust,
and other commercial litigation. Attorneys in this group try cases in
federal and state courts throughout the US, and before domestic and
international arbitral tribunals in many different kinds of matters,
including cases involving federal securities laws, patent infringement,
corporate control contests, accounting fraud, and financial
restructuring.
Mutual Fund Litigation: Milbank has unrivaled experience in
mutual fund class action and derivative litigation. The firm has handled
and tried more 1940 Act cases than any law firm in the country,
including most of the seminal cases.
Private Equity: Milbank represents participants in all aspects
of private equity investing. The firm's lawyers assist in structuring,
negotiating, executing and financing private equity transactions,
including leveraged and management buyouts, "going-private"
transactions, recapitalizations and exit transactions.
Project Finance: Home to one of the world's pre-eminent
project finance law practices, Milbank's lawyers have pioneered the
application of limited recourse project finance techniques
internationally for more than 25 years. Over the past three years,
Milbank closed more than 140 project financings worldwide which raised
more than $125 billion for energy and power, natural resources,
space/satellites and infrastructure projects worldwide.
Real Estate: Milbank has a longstanding tradition in the field
of real estate finance and development. The firm's attorneys have
played important roles in an array of complex and creative financings
and have been involved with the debt restructuring of numerous
high-profile real estate developers.
Securities: Milbank represents sellers, purchasers and
financial intermediaries in capital markets transactions including
international debt and equity offerings; derivatives and synthetic
products; public utility financings; banks and other financial
institution financings; project financing in the capital markets; and
domestic and foreign government financings.
Securitisation & Structured Finance: Milbank's Alternative
Investments Practice is an international leader in creating and
applying innovative structured finance and securitisation techniques to
meet the capital needs of issuers in the US, the EEC and emerging
international markets. This group represents issuers, sponsors,
underwriters, structuring advisors, collateral managers, credit
enhancers and investors in structured finance and securitisation
transactions throughout the world.
Technology: Milbank is recognized for exceptional expertise
and deep industry knowledge in a wide variety of high technology
industries, including computers, electronics, semiconductors, aerospace,
telecommunications, software, infrastructure and interfaces. The firm
is the worldwide leader in information technology and business process
outsourcing transactions, having represented clients, since 1986, in
more than 400 transactions in over 90 countries and with a combined deal
value well in excess of $100 billion.
Tax: The firm's tax lawyers create and implement innovative
acquisition and financing arrangements and advise corporations and
senior management on executive compensation and employee benefits
issues. We have been involved in development and implementation of
virtually all of the now well-known financial products of the last two
decades, including hybrid debt instruments, mandatorily convertible
debt, debt/forward contract investment units, contingent and integrated
convertible debt, equity collars and prepaid forward contracts, credit
derivatives and structured notes.
Transportation and Space: Milbank is recognised worldwide as
one of the premier providers of legal services to the transportation and
space industry. The firm's transactions are routinely singled out for
originality and prominence. We counsel satellite companies, aerospace
manufacturers and service providers, financial institutions and
investors in structuring and implementing space projects around the
world.
Trusts, Estates and Exempt Organizations: Drawing on worldwide
expertise and resources, Milbank's Trusts & Estates practice area
represents both individuals and financial institutions with regard to
their wealth planning, administration, litigation, and other needs. The
Exempt Organizations practice area represents a wide variety of
charitable institutions, including public charities, private
foundations, charitable trusts, and company foundations.
Languages spoken:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Bahasa (Indonesian), Chinese
(Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi
(Persian), French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Laotian, Latin, Luganda, Macedonian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Shanghainese, Sindi,
Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog (Philippines), Taiwanese, Toyshanese,
Ukrainian, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Yoruba
LMG/IFLR Awards
A comprehensive list, all Milbank offices, since 2007:
- Americas Equity Deal of the Year 2011: BofA preferred share sale of Itaú Unibanco (IFLR)
- Asian Project finance Deal of the Year 2011: GNPower Mariveles Project (IFLR)
- 2011 India - M&A- Bharti
- 2011 Asia - PF- Jurong Aromatics
- Asian M&A Deal of the Year 2010: Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama (BUMA) Takeover and Financing, (IFLR)
- Deals of the Year: Port of Miami Tunnel Project (USA); Fowler Ridge
Wind Project (USA); Esperanza Mining Project (Chile); Manzanillo LNG
Project (Mexico); Al Dur IWPP (Bahrain) and Inner Mongolian Wind Project
(Mongolia), 2010 (Euromoney's Project Finance)
- 2009 Overall Deal of the Year: Emirates issues $413 Ex-Im bond, 2010 (Airfinance Journal)
- 2009 Project Finance Deal/Firm of the Year – IFLR Asia Awards
- 2009 Most Innovative US Law Firm – IFLR Asia Awards
- Equity Team of the Year 2008 (IFLR Americas Awards)
- Equity Deal of the Year 2008: Bolsa Mexicana de Valores IPO (IFLR Americas Awards)
- Most Innovative US Law Firm, 2008 (IFLR Asia Awards)
- Project Finance Deal of the Year 2008: Tanjung Jati B Expansion (IFLR Asia Awards)
- Restructuring of the Year 2008: Cheyne Finance (IFLR Europe Awards)
- Project Finance Deal of the Year 2007: Babcock & Brown (IFLR Europe Awards)
- Asia-Pacific Telecoms Deal of the Year 2008: Protelindo (Project Finance)
- Latin American Renewables Deal of the Year 2008: Itiquira (Project Finance)
- North American Renewables Deal of the Year 2008: Noble Environmental Power (Project Finance)
- Latin American Export Finance Deal of the Year 2008: Peru LNG (Project Finance)
- European Acquisition Deal of the Year 2008: Angel Trains (Project Finance)
- Middle East Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2008: Yemen LNG (Project Finance)
- Overall Deal of the Year 2007: Continental Airlines EETC (Airfinance Journal)
- Most Innovative Deal of the Year 2007: Airspeed Securitization (Airfinance Journal)
- Asia Pacific Deal of the Year 2007: Macquarie Acquisition of GATX Air (Airfinance Journal)
- North America Petrochemical Deal of the Year 2007: Abengoa Bioenergy Project (Project Finance)
- Africa Mining Deal of the Year 2007: Ambatovy Mines Project (Project Finance)
- Asia Renewables Portfolio Deal of the Year 2007: Babcock & Brown Global Wind (Project Finance)
- Global Power Deal of the Year 2007: Barka2/Rusail (Project Finance)
- North America Portfolio Power Deal of the Year 2007: EIF Calypso (Project Finance)
- North America Project Bond Deal of the Year 2007: Lea Power Partners (Project Finance)
- Middle East IWPP Deal of the Year 2007: Marafiq IWPP (Project Finance)
- Latin America Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2007: Schahin Drilling (Project Finance)
- North America Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2007: Trans Bay Cable (Project Finance)