In another past week of big deals, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer led Johnson & Johnson’s $13.1 billion acquisition of Shockwave Medical (represented by Fenwick & West) while Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett worked with Blackstone Real Estate Partners X in its $10 billion buy of Apartment Income REIT Corp (which itself was represented by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom).
In addition to these two megadeals, there were five additional deals valued at more than $1 billion each that were announced in the past week, as well as a new SPAC, one new SPAC merger and five new IPOs. Debt offerings remained strong, with 12 debt offerings over $500 million.
