Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Fried, Frank, Harris, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson represented BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, in its $12.5 billion buy of infrastructure-focused private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners Friday. GIP was represented by Kirkland & Ellis and Debevoise & Plimpton.
Skadden was led by M&A partners David Hepp, Matthew Collin and Patrick Lewis; tax partner Victor Hollender; antitrust/competition partner Kenneth Schwartz; intellectual property and technology partner Stuart Levi; labor and employment law partner David Schwartz; executive compensation and benefits partner Shalom Huber; SEC reporting and compliance partner Brian Breheny (Washington, D.C.); and investment management partner Heather Cruz.
