Dealwatch: Baker & McKenzie and Ropes & Gray lead on Merck’s $8.4bn superbug takeover

Legal Business · 9 December 2014 · 2 min read

Corporate and M&A Deal watch US firms Baker McKenzie Ropes & Gray

One of the world’s biggest pharma groups, New Jersey-based Merck, instructed an all-female partner team from Baker & McKenzie to help it execute its $8.4bn takeover of Cubist Pharmaceuticals.

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