Clifford Chance advises Unilever on the $45bn combination of Unilever Foods with McCormick and Company, Inc.
The team is led by Melissa Fogarty and Dominic Ross from Clifford Chance working alongside Ben Roth and Jenna Levine from Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and the Unilever deal team led by Prakash Kakkad (Chief Legal Officer and Group Company Secretary, Unilever) and Ritesh Tiwari (Global Head of M&A and Treasury, Unilever).
Melissa Fogarty, Partner at Clifford Chance commented, “We wish Unilever and McCormick every congratulations on the announcement of this exciting combination of two fantastic businesses. Our immense thanks go to Fernando (CEO), Srini (CFO), Mairéad (CPO) and Prakash (CLO) for their support and leadership towards this significant milestone and for our long-standing partnership. It has also been a great pleasure to work with Ben and Jenna and their team at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.”
The Clifford Chance team includes partners Alanna Hunter and Harriet Martin, and senior associates Jennifer Xue, Chelsea Bruk-Jackson, Sheridan Jones and Daniel Ayad (M&A). Partner Sue Hinchliffe and senior associate Nissim Massarano (Antitrust), partner Zayed Al Jamil and senior associate Midori Takenaka (Separation), partner Stephen Reese and senior associate Briony Byrne (IP), partner Nicola Hemsley and senior associate Viktoria Parkhomenko (Tax), partner Chinwe Odimba-Chapman, director Florence Wong and senior associate Francesca Baker (Employment), partner Clare Hoxey and director Rebecca Trapp (Pensions), partner Andrew Patterson and associate Richard Compton (Incentives) and partner Alis Pay and senior associate Melissa Jones (Real Estate).
