Corporate/M&A (International & Cross-Border)

Chambers Review

New York-headquartered Davis Polk has high-end capabilities across transactional, regulatory and contentious areas. It is set up to serve global clients and project-manage matters from key financial centres, including London, Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong, and collaborates with selected partner firms in other jurisdictions for local law aspects. The firm primarily serves large US and international investment banks, financial institutions and corporates, and it has extensive experience handling sophisticated, multi-jurisdictional M&A, financing and capital markets offerings, as well as running international investigations and disputes, including global antitrust files.

In the global M&A context, the firm is a major player in substantial transactions involving publicly listed companies, particularly those listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq. Its US teams offer clients close collaboration with the firm's corporate London and Asia groups, leveraging strong M&A and capital markets expertise across the board and primarily generating and coordinating work from New York. Has recently acted for clients in the TMT, pharmaceutical and commercial real estate sectors on significant transatlantic and Asia-US matters, showing great proficiency as an inbound US law counsel.