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Richard C. Morrissey joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 1983 and has been with the Firm's London office since 1986. He became a partner of the Firm in 1992. Mr. Morrissey is head of the Firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group in Europe and has extensive experience in cross border mergers and acquisitions in a wide range of industries. Mr. Morrissey also co-heads the Firm's Private Equity Group. He has worked with numerous private equity firms on the buy side of transactions and on the sell side he has worked with a number of corporate clients selling businesses to, or negotiating investments by, a variety of private equity firms. Mr. Morrissey has also participated in many international equity and debt offerings for non-U.S. private issuers. He is the regular senior U.S. securities counsel to Akzo Nobel, Diageo, ENI, Thomson and Vernalis. He is frequently consulted by various investment banks on capital markets matters, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and he has represented each in numerous equity and debt transactions. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on M&A and securities issues and is a co-chair of the Practising Law Institute's Annual Conference on Securities Regulation in Europe. Selected Transactions Mr. Morrissey's extensive experience includes a broad range of significant matters including: Mergers & Acquisitions Represented Diageo in its joint venture with Ketel One vodka Represented Akzo Nobel in its sale of Organon to Schering-Plough Represented Akzo Nobel in its purchase of ICI Represented Scottish Power in its sale to Iberdrola Represented Hilton Hotels Corp. in its acquisition of the lodging business of Hilton Group plc Represented Telewest Global in its acquisition by NTL, Inc. Representing TeliaSonera in connection with the purchase of a majority stake in Turkcell Represented France Telecom in connection with its acquisition of the outstanding minority interests in Equant and Wanadoo Representing Philips in its sale of a variety of businesses in the components area Represented ENI in its acquisition of Italgas Represented Grand Metropolitan in connection with its merger with Guinness Represented Glaxo Wellcome in its merger with SmithKline Beecham Represented Olivetti in its acquisition of Telecom Italia Represented Telecom Italia in a variety of its restructuring efforts including its tender offer for its saving shares and the merger of its Internet subsidiary Tin.it and Seat Pagine Gialle Represented Nomura Securities International in its acquisition of Thorn-EMI plc Represented the independent board of directors of Minorco in its acquisition by Anglo American Private Equity Represented Silver Lake in its purchase of Intelsat Represented Silver Lake on the purchase of Philips semiconductors business (NXP) by KKR and Silver Lake Represented Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as lead consortium member in the acquisition of AWG plc Represented Thomson in connection with the implementation of new group strategy, including PIPE investment by Silver Lake Partners Capital Markets Represented Diageo in numerous debt deals and on the sale of its equity stake in General Mills acquired in connection with Diageo s sale of its Pillsbury business Represented the underwriters in the French and International rights offering by France Telecom Represented the ENI and Snam Rete Gas in connection with ENI's partial spin-off of the Italian gas transportation network Represented the underwriters in the privatization of ENI and later ENI in connection with further sales by the Italian Government of its interest in ENI Represented Bass (now InterContinental), Diageo, Grand Metropolitan, LASMO and other issuers in connection with their initial New York Stock Exchange listings Rankings and Recognition The Legal 500, United States, Volume 1 Recognized in Private Equity (2007) PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook Recognized in Capital Markets (2008 announced, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003, 2001-2002) PLC Cross-border Finance: Secured Lending Handbook (2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2006) PLC Cross-border Equity Capital Markets Handbook (2006/2007, 2004/2005) Euromoney's Guide to the World s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers (2007, 2005, 2002) Euromoney's Guide to the World s Leading Private Equity Lawyers (2006, 2005) PLC Which Lawyer? Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook (2004-2005, 2002, 2001) Legalease's UK Legal Experts Recognized in Capital Markets (2008, 2004, 2002, 2001) American Bar Association's ABA Journal (2001) | 