Law firm · New York, United States
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Deals
- 4
- Latest
- Apr 2026
What they do
Skadden is a law firm whose M&A practice advises large companies and investment banks as well as smaller entities. It handles negotiated and contested deals including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and proxy contests.
- Services
- M&A law
- Specialties
- Energy, Financial services, Health care, Life sciences, Real estate, Retail, Technology, Mining
- Kinds of deal
- Leveraged buyouts, cross-border mergers and acquisitions
- Deal size
- Recorded deals: median A$2.7bn, from A$1.1bn to A$14bn
- Clients
- Corporates
From skadden.com, checked 7 Nov 2026: /capabilities/practices/mergers-and-acquisitions/cc/mergers-and-acquisitions, /capabilities
Deals
Columns
4 of 4 deals
| Advisers | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Downtown Music Holdings | – | Universal Music Group (through Virgin Music Group) | Acquisition | Legal adviser to Downtown Music Holdings (target) | Completed | 1,104.0 | Media, entertainment and online platforms | Kirkland & Ellis (buy-side)Freshfields (buy-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Allens (sell-side)TozziniFreire Advogados (sell-side) | Universal Music Group (through Virgin Music Group) acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings |
| May 2025 | MAC Copper | – | Harmony Gold Mining Company | Scheme | Legal adviser to MAC Copper (target) | Completed | 1,580.0 | Copper and base metals | Barrenjoey (sell-side)Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)Ogier (sell-side)Webber Wentzel (sell-side)Macquarie Capital (buy-side)Ashurst Perkins Coie (buy-side) | Harmony Gold Mining Company acquisition of MAC Copper |
| Mar 2025 | The AZEK Company | – | James Hardie Industries | Acquisition | Legal adviser to James Hardie Industries (acquirer) | Completed | 13,972.3 | Building materials | Jefferies (buy-side)BofA Securities (buy-side)Arthur Cox (buy-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Goldman Sachs (sell-side)Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (sell-side) | James Hardie Industries acquisition of The AZEK Company |
| Jan 2025 | Insignia | – | CC Capital | Scheme | Legal adviser to CC Capital (acquirer) | Completed | 3,900.0 | Asset and wealth management | Citi (sell-side)Gresham (sell-side)Mallesons (sell-side)Kroll (sell-side)Ashurst Perkins Coie (buy-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side)Weil, Gotshal & Manges (buy-side) | CC Capital Partners acquisition of Insignia |
Listed on their website
- Array BioPharma Inc. in its acquisition by Pfizer Inc. total enterprise value of approximately $11.4 billion
- Credit Karma, Inc. in its $7.1 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc. $7.1 billion
- Red Hat, Inc. in its acquisition by IBM approximately $34 billion
- Xilinx, Inc. in its $35 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $35 billion
- Intel Corporation in its $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye N.V. $15.3 billion
Transactions the firm lists on its own website, checked 7 Nov 2026. Those FundComb has recorded link to the deal.
Activity
By announcement date; raisings and IPOs by their own date.
Headline tables where the firm reached the top ten, ranked as each table opens.
Sector of the business bought or funded.
Disclosed value in Australian dollars.
Most often across the table
- Macquarie Capital
1 dealCompare - Ashurst Perkins Coie1 dealCompare
- Citi
1 dealCompare - Gresham
1 dealCompare - Mallesons1 dealCompare
- Kroll
1 dealCompare - Goldman Sachs
1 dealCompare - Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
1 dealCompare
Firms advising the other side of the same deals.
League table positions
| Table | 2026 YTD | CY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| M&A legal advisers | – | #5 (3) |
| M&A legal advisers, completed | – | #3 (2) |
Rank as each table opens (by deal value, independent experts by number of reports), with the deal count in brackets. Top ten places shown.
Offices and contact
Contact
- Website
- skadden.com ↗
- Enquiries
- Contact page ↗
- Company page ↗
From the firm's own website.
Offices
- New YorkHead office One Manhattan West, NY 10001 1.212.735.3000 Office page ↗