The Deal The Deal Awards 2022

The Deal is proud to announce its 2022 awards honorees!

The Deal honors the top deals and dealmakers shaping the Deal Economy in the latest installment of The Deal Awards, a global ceremony that recognizes the elite advisers and service providers who power the deal economy. In line with The Deal's mission of providing forward-looking intelligence across mergers and acquisitions, private equity, activism and restructuring, the awards seek to recognize and celebrate the advisers, firms and banks driving the market forward.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an entry to The Deal Awards 2022, and a huge congratulations to the winners! Please see the results below.

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WINNERS

TOP AWARDS

Category	Deal/Individual/Company
Most Outstanding Deal of the Year	Discovery Acquires Warner Media From AT&T for $43 Billion Allen & Co. LLC Alston & Bird LLP Covington & Burling LLP D.F. King & Co. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Gladstone Place Partners LLC Goldman, Sachs & Co. IHS Markit Ltd. Innisfree M&A Inc. JPMorgan Securities LLC LionTree Advisors LLC Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Perella Weinberg Partners LP Proskauer Rose LLP RBC Capital Markets Richards, Layton & Finger PA Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz White & Case LLP
Most Outstanding Deal of the Year - Middle Market	Elanco Acquires Kindred Biosciences for $440 Million Barclays Covington & Burling LLP Goldman, Sachs & Co. MacKenzie Partners Inc. Morrison & Foerster LLP
Most Outstanding Dealmaker of the Year	Tad J. Freese, Latham & Watkins LLP
Most Outstanding Dealmaker of the Year - Middle Market	Benjamin Wills, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

SPECIALTY AWARDS

Category	Deal/Individual/Company
The Deal’s Impact Dealmaker Award 2022	Michael J. Aiello, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Peter Atkins, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP George R. Bason, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Faiza J. Saeed, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Private Equity Deal of the Year	Clearlake's Acquisition of Chelsea Football Club Deutsche Bank AG FGS Global Goldman, Sachs & Co. Latham & Watkins LLP Moelis & Co. LLC Northridge Law LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Raine Group LLC Robey Warshaw LLP Sidley Austin LLP Simmons & Simmons LLP
Private Equity Dealmaker of the Year	Elizabeth Cooper, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Restructuring of the Year (Debtor Advisers to be Recognized)	Hertz Gives Shareholders Cash and Stock Recovery Moelis & Co. LLC Richards, Layton & Finger PA White & Case LLP
Debtor Counsel of the Year – Law Firm	Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Debtor Counsel of the Year – Lawyer	Marshall Huebner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Activist Defense Adviser of the Year	Sidley Austin LLP
Public Relations Firm of the Year	Abernathy MacGregor
Most Outstanding Debt Financing of the Year	Vista, Elliott Merge Citrix and TIBCO Bank of America Corp. Credit Suisse AG Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP
Regulatory Counsel of the Year - Law Firm	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

SECTOR AWARDS

Category	Deal/Individual/Company
Law Firm of the Year - Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage	Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Energy & Industrials	Latham & Watkins LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Financial Services	Sullivan Cromwell LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Financial Technology (FinTech)	Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Healthcare Services	McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology	Ropes & Gray LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Technology, Media & Telecom	Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage	Saee Muzumdar, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Energy & Industrials	Steve Gill, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Financial Services	Ravi Purushotham, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Financial Technology (FinTech)	Ryan Dzierniejko, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Healthcare Services	Christian Wilson, Goodwin Procter LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology	Catherine Dargan, Covington & Burling LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Technology, Media & Telecom	Michael Roh, Ropes & Gray LLP

Outstanding Deals of the Year

Nestlé Acquires Supplements Maker Bountiful

Evercore Inc.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Latham & Watkins LLP

McCarthy Tetrault LLP

Morgan Stanley

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Oracle Acquires Cerner for $28.3 Billion

Abernathy MacGregor

Centerview Partners LLC

Clifford Chance LLP

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Hogan Lovells

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Latham & Watkins LLP

Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

American Tower Acquires CoreSite Realty for $10 Billion

CDX Advisors LLC

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Evercore Inc.

Houlihan Lokey Inc.

Innisfree M&A Inc.

Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Kekst CNC

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Novo Nordisk Acquires Dicerna Pharmaceuticals for $3.3 Billion

Centerview Partners LLC

D.F. King & Co.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Evercore Inc.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Goodwin Procter LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SVB Leerink LLC

Goldman Sachs Acquires GreenSky for $2.24 Billion

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Financial Technology Partners LP

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Piper Sandler Cos.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC

Amazon Adds Movie Studio MGM for $8.45 Billion

Bank of America Corp.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Clifford Chance LLP

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

FGS Global

Gasthalter & Co. LP

Latham & Watkins LLP

LionTree Advisors LLC

Morgan Stanley

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Sidley Austin LLP

White & Case LLP

Broadcom Acquire VMware for $61 Billion

Bank of America Corp.

Barclays

Brunswick Group LLP

Citigroup Inc.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Morgan Stanley

O’Melveny & Myers LLP

FGS Global

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Victor Capital Sells PrimaLoft to Compass Diversified for $530 Million

Blank Rome LLP

Gateway Group

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

IGB Group

Jefferies LLC

Robert W. Baird & Co.

William Blair & Co. LLC

Pfizer Adds Biohaven Pharmaceuticals for $11.6 Billion

Centerview Partners LLC

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ropes & Gray LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

SHORTLIST

TOP AWARDS

Category	Deal/Individual/Company
Most Outstanding Deal of the Year	Microsoft Buys Video Game Publisher Activision Blizzard Block Acquires Afterpay for $29 Billion Pfizer Adds Biohaven Pharmaceuticals for $11.6 Billion Oracle Corp. Acquires Cerner Corp. $28.3 Billion AerCap’s $30bn Acquisition of GE Capital Aviation Services Canadian Pacific Successfully Clinches Deal for Kansas City Southern Amazon Adds Movie Studio MGM for $8.45 Billion Discovery Acquires Warner Media From AT&T for $43 Billion
Most Outstanding Deal of the Year - Middle Market	Edgewell Personal Care Buys Billie for $300 Million Limelight Networks Acquires Edgecast from Yahoo! for $300 Million Elanco Acquires Kindred Biosciences for $440 Million Netflix Acquires Next Games Oyj for $69 Million Veritone Buys PandoLogic from Edison Partners for $85 Million Trecora goes private in deal with Balmoral Funds for $247 Million
Most Outstanding Dealmaker of the Year	Frank Aquila, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Tad J. Freese, Latham & Watkins LLP Keith Hallam, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Bill Regner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Steve Seidman, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Mitch Eitel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Krishna Veeraraghavan, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Most Outstanding Dealmaker of the Year - Middle Market	Chris Abbinante , Sidley Austin LLP Scott A. Abramowitz, Ropes & Gray LLP David Beller, Latham & Watkins LLP David C. Eisman, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Corey Fox, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Ernie Wechsler, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Benjamin Wills, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

SPECIALTY AWARDS

Category	Deal/Individual/Company
The Deal’s Impact Dealmaker Award 2022	Michael J. Aiello, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Peter Atkins, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP George R. Bason, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Faiza J. Saeed, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Private Equity Deal of the Year	EQT Private Equity sells Aldevron to Danaher Clearlake's Acquisition of Chelsea Football Club Clearlake Capital Acquires Cornerstone OnDemand for $5.2 Billion GIP and KKR Acquire CyrusOne for $15.1 Billion Thoma Bravo Pays $6.4 billion for Medallia Medline Receives Majority Investment from Blackstone, Carlyle, Hellman & Friedman PAI Partners Acquires Tropicana, Naked Juice Brands from PepsiCo Francisco Partners Sells Plex Systems to Rockwell Automation for $2.22 Billion
Private Equity Dealmaker of the Year	Matthew Abbott, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Paul Bird, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Elizabeth Cooper, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Mehdi Khodadad, Sidley Austin LLP Leonard Kreynin, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Restructuring of the Year (Debtor Advisers to be Recognized)	Carlson Travel Completes First International One-Day Prepack Hertz Gives Shareholders Cash and Stock Recovery Mallinckrodt Overcomes Objections to Win Plan Confirmation in Complex Case Puerto Rico Cuts $35 Billion in Debt Payments Under Plan
Debtor Counsel of the Year – Law Firm	Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP White & Case LLP
Debtor Counsel of the Year – Lawyer	Matt Barr, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Jeff Bjork, Latham & Watkins LLP Marshall Huebner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Christine Okike, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Activist Defense Adviser of the Year	Kirkland & Ellis LLP Sidley Austin LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Public Relations Firm of the Year	Abernathy MacGregor Brunswick Group LLP Gasthalter & Co. LPP Joele Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher Longacre Square Partners MiddleM Creative
Most Outstanding Debt Financing of the Year	Vista, Elliott Merge Citrix and TIBCO Celanese Finances Deal for DuPont M&M CD&R Acquires, Merges Multi-Color, Fort Dearborn Thoma Bravo’s Acquisition of Stamps.com Debt Financing
Regulatory Counsel of the Year - Law Firm	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Covington & Burling LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Sullivan Cromwell LLP

SECTOR AWARDS

Category	Deal/Individual/Company
Law Firm of the Year - Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Sidley Austin LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Energy & Industrials	Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Financial Services	Sidley Austin LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Law Firm of the Year - Financial Technology (FinTech)	Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Dechert LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Law Firm of the Year - Healthcare Services	Bass Berry & Sims plc Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Ropes & Gray LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology	Cooley LLP Covington & Burling LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Law Firm of the Year - Technology, Media & Telecom	Cooley LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage	Joshua M. Kogan, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Saee Muzumdar, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Brian Wolfe, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Energy & Industrials	Carina L. Antweil, Baker Botts LLP Doug Bacon, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Steve Gill, Vinson & Elkins LLP Joanne Katsantonis, McGuire Woods
Dealmaker of the Year - Financial Services	Alex Cochran, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Andrew Gerlach, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Mike O’Leary, Hunton Andrews Kurth Ravi Purushotham, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Financial Technology (FinTech)	Ryan Dzierniejko, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Andrew Gerlach, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Louis Goldberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Healthcare Services	Garrett Charon, Ropes & Gray LLP Angela Humphreys, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC Kristian Werling, McDermott Will & Emery Christian Wilson, Goodwin Procter LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology	Catherine Dargan, Covington & Burling LLP Chris Comeau, Ropes & Gray LLP Emily Oldshue, Ropes & Gray LLP
Dealmaker of the Year - Technology, Media & Telecom	Jamie Kathleen Leigh, Cooley LLP Sonia Nijjar, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Michael Roh, Ropes & Gray LLP Anthony Vernance, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Taurie Zeitzer, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

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