EDITORIAL REVIEW
Eitel has had his hands full recently with
Citigroup’s $7.5 B stock sale to Abu Dhabi
Investment Authority, AmSouth Bancorp’s merger
with Regions Financial, and much more.
—2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
Eitel eased the path for Toronto-Dominion Bank’s $8.5 billion purchase of Commerce Bancorp.
— Lawdragon,
January 2008
Eitel and his partner Rodgin Cohen built the artful BlackRock / Merrill Lynch merger, a hybrid deal with some factors resembling a joint venture, a purchase and a sale.
— Lawdragon, July 2007
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Mitchell Eitel joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 1987 and has been a partner since 1996. He is a member of the
Financial Institutions and
Mergers & Acquisitions Group, with a practice focused on financial services mergers and acquisitions,
securities transactions, private equity investments, and bank regulatory matters.
Selected Transactions
Recent assignments have included representations of:
- ABN AMRO in the sale of its Americas private banking business.
- AmSouth Bancorp in its merger with Regions Financial and in the sale of its credit card and mutual fund businesses.
- The Bank of New York in the swap of its retail banking business and JPMorgan Chase's corporate trust business and in the
merger with Mellon.
- Barclays PLC in the sale of its Americas private banking business, in its proposed takeover of ABN AMRO and in the
acquisition of Lehman’s brokerage business.
- The Board of Directors of The Bear Stearns Companies in its sale to JPMorgan Chase
- China Investment Company in its investment in Morgan Stanley.
- Citigroup in connection with the investment of $12.5 billion in Citigroup by a group of sovereign and other investors.
- Citigroup in its sale of $7.5 billion in Equity Units to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
- D.E. Shaw in the sale of a stake to Lehman Brothers.
- Goldman Sachs’s private equity arm in investments in Capmark, Sanyo Electric Company, Sanyo Electric Credit and First
Marblehead.
- J.C. Flowers & Co. in the proposed acquisition of Sallie Mae and the acquisitions of Fox-Pitt, Kelton and Coronia Cochran
Waller.
- JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of Washington Mutual’s banking operations from the FDIC.
- KeyCorp in its acquisition of American Express Business Finance and Austin Capital Management and in the sale of McDonald
Investments.
- Lehman Brothers in connection with its capital raising and consideration of strategic alternatives prior to its
bankruptcy.
- Lone Star Funds in the acquisition of Accredited Home Lenders.
- Merrill Lynch in connection with the investment of $6.6 billion by Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait), Mizuho Financial
Group Inc. (Japan) and Korean Investment Corp. (Korea), among others, and, separately, in its sale of $6.2 billion in Common
Stock to Temasek Capital and Davis Selected Advisers.
- Merrill Lynch & Co. in its transaction with BlackRock Inc., its acquisition of First Republic Bank and its investment in
Nuveen.
- Morgan Stanley in the acquisition of Hub Limited.
- Piper Jaffray in the sale of its brokerage business.
- SunTrust in its acquisition of Seix Investment Advisors and in the restructuring and sale of Lighthouse Partners.
- Wachovia Corporation in its acquisition of GE Money’s Auto Warranty business, in the sales of its corporate trust and
HomeEq operations, and in its pending merger with Wells Fargo.
Professional Activities and Community Involvement
Rankings and Recognition
- The American Lawyer, “Dealmaker of the Week” (October 3, 2008)
- The American Lawyer, “Dealmaker of the Year” for M&A (2008, 2007)
- Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business - for Financial Services M&A (2008, 2007, 2006)
- Best Lawyers in America - for Banking Law (2009, 2008)
- New York Super Lawyers - Leading M&A lawyer (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
- Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America (2007, 2008, 2009-2010)
- Lawdragon 500: Leading Dealmakers in America (2007)
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