We have the advisers in Verizon Wireless'
$28.1 billion acquisition of rural
cellular provider Alltel Corp.
The financial advisers for Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group plc, include investment bankers
Paul J. Taubman, Ji-Yeun Lee, Robert Friedsam, Christopher Bartlett and others from Morgan Stanley; and Rick Leaman, Simon Warshaw, Christian Lesueur, Ehren Stenzler, Karim Tabet and Chris Rhee of UBS (for Vodafone). Legal advice was provided by Jeffrey J. Rosen, David A. Brittenham, Lawrence K. Cagney, Peter A. Furci and others of
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; and
William Curbow, Steven Todrys and others from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP .
Alltel sellers, TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, sought financial advice from Chad Leat and Frank Yeary of
Goldman, Sachs & Co., as well as advisers from Citigroup Inc. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. Legal advice for Alltel came from
Edward D. Herlihy, Steven A. Rosenblum, Stephanie J. Seligman, Lawrence S. Makow, Ilene K. Gotts, Jeremy L. Goldstein and others from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. For the sellers, legal advice came from
Paul
Shim, Benet O'Reilly, Michael Gerstenzang, Duane McLaughlin, Margaret Peponis,
Jason Factor, Arthur Kohn and others of
Cleary Gottlieb Steen
& Hamilton LLP; and
Byung Choi, Sunil Savkar, Christopher Leich, Craig
Marcus of Ropes & Gray LLP.
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