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Davis Polk has considerable experience providing advice and handling litigation concerning pre- and post-closing challenges to mergers and acquisitions. In addition to our work in contested mergers, we defend buyers, sellers, financial advisers and accounting firms against claims concerning post-closing adjustments, indemnities, breaches of contract, fraud and misrepresentation.

• $53 billion acquisition by Comcast Corporation of AT’T Broadband to form AT&T Comcast Corporation, the largest cable company in the United States
• $10.3 billion successful hostile takeover by Oracle of PeopleSoft—this is believed to be the largest-ever all-cash offer in the technology industry
• $6.1 billion proposed merger of Royal Caribbean and P&O Princess
• $1.2 billion acquisition by Telefónica of an additional 33-percent stake in Terra Lycos, increasing its ownership to approximately 72 percent
• $863 million acquisition by Tyco of the remaining stake it did not already own of TyCom
• $243 million acquisition by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton of Donna Karan International
• $235 million acquisition by Yahoo! of Inktomi
• $121 million merger of Netro and SR Telecom