Law360 Names Cravath a 2024 “Private Equity Practice Group of the Year”
February 14, 2025
On February 10, 2025, Cravath was featured by Law360 as a “Private Equity Practice Group of the Year.” The profile highlighted the Firm’s recent work advising on a number of significant mergers and acquisitions in the private equity space, including its representation of Amentum in its merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, as well as Brookfield Renewable in its and Cameco’s $7.875 billion acquisition of Westinghouse and its $2.8 billion acquisition of Duke Energy Renewables.
The profile noted how in recent years the Firm has focused on building out a core group of private equity practitioners, and Cravath partner and Co‑Head of the Firm’s Private Equity practice David J. Perkins praised the group’s “ability to take on some of the most complicated transactions that you can see in private equity dealmaking” given its relative size. Speaking to the group’s future, Cravath partner and Co‑Head of the Firm’s Private Equity practice Peter Feist added that “we're really positioning ourselves to be a go‑to firm for complex, difficult private equity transactions.”
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