Los Angeles
OfficeWith more than three decades in Southern California, Skadden’sLos Angeles office represents U.S.-based and multinational clients,including a wide variety of California-based Fortune 500, middle-market
and privately held companies in industries as diverse as the region,
including technology, media/entertainment, retail/apparel, beauty/personal care, food and beverage, aerospace, health care, gaming, realestate, manufacturing and private equity, among many others.

Our attorneys advise on a range of corporate matters, including
mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and private equity. Our
litigation practice includes a high-profile trial group and advises
on securities, class and derivative actions, and white collar andgovernment enforcement litigation. Additional areas of practiceinclude banking, corporate restructuring, labor and employment law,and real estate. Through our collaboration with Skadden’s Palo Alto
office, clients benefit from additional counsel in the areas of intellectual property transactions, executive compensation and benefits, IP
litigation and tax, and we leverage the firm’s global network to meetclient needs around the world and across the practices.

Our M&A attorneys are known innovators of key developments inmany of the most complex and significant transactions. Skadden’sLos Angeles capital markets experience encompasses the complete
spectrum of equity, debt and hybrid instruments issued by U.S. andinternational companies in global markets. In addition, we havebeen at the forefront of special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)
IPOs and related transactions. On the strength of our reputation forhandling the most complex deals, as well as our robust league tablerankings, we have been widely recognized as one of the leading
capital markets practices in the country, including by Chambers
USA, which places us in its prestigious top tiers in California.

In 2024, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Skadden a Most
Admired Law Firm To Work.

Our established private equity practice represents private equity
firms in connection with all aspects of their businesses, including
structuring and organizing fund sponsors and their investment funds,
executing acquisition, financing and exit transactions, and providing
transactional and general corporate advice to portfolio companies.

Corporate

Our corporate attorneys advise on many of the highest-profile deals in
the marketplace. While these generally are the most visible, we handle
many middle market corporate transactions as well. We counsel public
and private business, private equity firms, investment banks, entrepreneurs and family businesses on a wide range of transactions, including
mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, private equity
investments and fund formation, as well as on securities law compliance, directors’ duties and corporate governance issues. Our attorneys
have repeatedly been recognized as leading lawyers by Chambers
Global 2022 and Chambers USA 2022, including in M&A, private
equity and media and entertainment, and we have more corporate
attorneys listed in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America
than any other law firm in Los Angeles.

Litigation

Skadden’s Los Angeles litigation department represents clients inhigh-stakes, high-profile international, national and local litigation.
Our litigation attorneys regularly appear in trial and appellate courts
at the federal and state levels, before administrative tribunals, andin arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
Skadden is well positioned to help clients navigate the legal landscapewhen business conduct results in concurrent criminal, civil and/oradministrative proceedings that require a strategically coordinatedresponse. Skadden’s general commercial litigation, securities litigation, and government enforcement and white collar crime practices
are ranked in Chambers USA 2022 for California.

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Our Los Angeles office includes former federal prosecutors fromthe Office of the United States Attorney for the Central Districtof California, each with significant trial experience, including theformer deputy chief of the General Crimes Section and the former
assistant chief of the Criminal Division. Lawyers in this group are
active in a variety of cases brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Officeand the SEC and have extensive experience in the regulatory andenforcement issues confronted by all participants in the securities
markets, including public accounting firms, broker-dealers, investment companies and investment advisers.
Banking

Banking attorneys in the Los Angeles office regularly handle
domestic and international transactions representing a wide rangeof financial institutions, borrowers and equity sponsors. We advise
clients on syndicated credit facilities for investment grade andnon-investment grade companies, acquisition financings, bridge loantransactions, restructurings, workouts and debtor in possession andexit financings, mezzanine debt financings and project financings.
Skadden attorneys also have handled numerous leveraged financings. Chambers USA 2022 ranked Skadden’s banking practice in thefirst tier for California.
Corporate Restructuringinsolvency issues in corporate and financing transactions and on all
aspects of distressed M&A situations. Our group is ranked in Chambers USA for our bankruptcy and restructuring work in California.
Labor and Employment

Members of our Los Angeles Labor and Employment Group advise
on a wide range of matters arising in representation proceedings,
collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, litigation in state andfederal courts, mediations and administrative proceedings before suchgovernment agencies as the National Labor Relations Board, the EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission, state human rights agencies,
and the federal and state Departments of Labor. We advise employers on the full range of labor and employment issues that arise in theworkplace.
Real Estate

Skadden’s Los Angeles real estate practice assists clients in structuring and executing a wide spectrum of transactions. We represent
real estate investment trusts , developers, lenders, investment banks,
opportunity funds, domestic and foreign investors, public companies, and private entrepreneurs in the full range of real-estate relatedtransactions. The Los Angeles real estate attorneys are ranked in
Chambers USA 2022 for California.

Our corporate restructuring attorneys represent public and privatecompanies in Delaware and throughout the country in varied
out-of-court workouts and financial restructurings, prepackaged
bankruptcies, traditional Chapter 11 cases and complex troubled
litigations. We lead restructuring transactions while drawing on thefirm’s M&A, banking, corporate finance, securities, litigation, realestate, regulatory, tax and capital markets experience, and advise on

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