Shearman, Slaughter and May Advise on Cable & Wireless Deal

Shearman, Slaughter and May Advise on Latin America’s top M&A deal.

BY LATINVEX STAFF

Shearman & Sterling and Slaughter and May are advising on Liberty Global’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Cable & Wireless, which operates in the Caribbean and Latin America. Shearman & Sterling is advising Liberty Global, while Slaughter and May is advising Cable & Wireless.

Slaughter and May is working with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in relation to the financing aspects of the transaction. Meanwhile, Ropes & Gray advised on financing aspects.

The deal is the largest in Latin America so far this year, according to Latinvex and Thomson Reuters data. It surpasses  ...

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Keywords: Cable & Wireless, Liberty Global, Shearman & Sterling, Slaughter and May


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