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Paul, Weiss Tax Team Wins Three Impact Deal Awards at 2024 ITR Americas Awards

The International Tax Review named Paul, Weiss a winner of three “Impact Deals of the Year” as part of its annual awards, which recognize the achievements of tax professionals throughout the Americas. The firm was recognized for its work advising Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in the $775 million acquisition of Cyxtera’s assets, following Cyxtera’s bankruptcy; The Estée Lauder Companies in its acquisition of TOM FORD in a deal valued at $2.8 billion; and WWE in its combination with UFC forming TKO Group.

The Paul, Weiss team advising Brookfield Infrastructure Partners was led by partners Ted Ackerman, Jacob Adlerstein, Salvatore Gogliormella, Brian Hermann and David Harris, and included corporate partners Suhan Shim, Robert Zochowski and Cullen Sinclair, and counsel Christopher Dickson, Usman Arain and Mikhel Schecter; restructuring counsel Claudia Tobler; tax partner Scott Sontag; intellectual property partner Charles Googe; executive compensation partners Andrea Wahlquist Brown, Reuven Falik and Ron Aizen; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.

The Paul, Weiss team advising The Estée Lauder Companies was led by corporate partners Krishna Veeraraghavan and Laura Turano and intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon, and also included, among others, tax partner Robert Holo; executive compensation partner Jarrett Hoffman; real estate partner Peter Fisch; litigation partners Lynn Bayard, Gregory Laufer and Geoffrey Chepiga and counsel Darren Johnson; restructuring partner Elizabeth McColm; intellectual property partner Bonnie Chen and counsel Elana Bensoul; antitrust partners Joshua Soven and Marta Kelly; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.

The Paul, Weiss team advising WWE was led by partners Kyle Seifried, Scott Barshay, Benjamin Goodchild, Daniel Kramer and Jean McLoughlin, and included corporate partners Raphael Russo, John Kennedy, Suhan Shim, Manuel Frey and Patricia Vaz de Almeida, and counsel David Sobel and Jason Tyler; litigation partners Ted Wells, Richard Tarlowe, Geoffrey Chepiga, Andre Bouchard and Mark Mendelsohn, and counsel Matthew Stachel and Mitchell Webber; executive compensation counsel Cynthia Akard; tax partners Brian Krause and Jeffrey Samuels; intellectual property and entertainment partner Charles Googe; real estate partner Salvatore Gogliormella; antitrust partners Joshua Soven and Marta Kelly; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.

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