Skadden's 20 strong global anti-trust group, with four EU competition partners in Brussels and Frankfurt, keeps its position in the second tier. In 2010 the group recruited Simon Baxter, a former head of competition at Clifford Chance, which, says a peer, "was a great boost to the team; he is excellent, very strategic and deserves a top rating"....
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Skadden's 20 strong global anti-trust group, with four EU competition partners in Brussels and Frankfurt, keeps its position in the second tier. In 2010 the group recruited Simon Baxter, a former head of competition at Clifford Chance, which, says a peer, "was a great boost to the team; he is excellent, very strategic and deserves a top rating".
James Venit, "an excellent lawyer" says one peer, is widely recommended as the firm's leading individual, while Frederic Depoortere, Nikolaos Peristerakis and Giorgio Motta appear regularly on the biggest deals.
The US firm advised Merck on its $7.2 billion acquisition of Millipore and the Nokia Siemens Networks on the $1.2 billion acquisition of the wireless network infrastructure assets of Motorola.
Baxter and Motta also helped Novell in its acquisition by Attachmate of its intellectual property assets.
Venit and Ingrid Vandenborre acted for Pfizer on its acquisition of Ferrosan Consumer Health. Depoortere also advised China Huaneng Group and Cephalon on merger clearance matters.
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