Global Legal Awards: Global M&A Deals of the Year
Troutman Sanders was recognized in an American Lawyer article for being one of ten winners in American Lawyer’s Global M&A Deal of the Year: U.S. 2014 category at the publication’s second annual Global Legal Awards. The award was designed to honor firms or in-house legal departments that played “a substantial role in the most distinguished cross-border work preformed between Jan. 1, 2013, and April 14, 2014….”
Specifically, the firm was chosen for its work with Shuanghui/Smithfield Foods in the “Global M&A Deal of the Year: China Outbound” category. Shuanghui acquired Smithfield Foods in a deal worth $7.1 billion. The transaction was billed as the largest-ever Chinese takeover of an American company.
Richmond partners Mason Bayler, Dave Meyers and Coby Beck served as the Virginia legal counsel on the acquisition for Shuanghui.