EDITORIAL REVIEW
A tight credit market didn’t stop this Skadden
stalwart from finding financing for client United
Online’s $800M purchase of FTD.
—2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
McCarthy guided Activision in its $18.9B deal with Vivendi Games, which creates one of the largest video game makers in the world.
— Lawdragon,
January 2008
McCarthy molded Disney's acquisition of Pixar, Oracle's merger with PeopleSoft and Shopzilla's sale to E.W. Scripps.
— Lawdragon, July 2007
He represented The Walt
Disney Company in its acquisition of Pixar Animation
Studios.
— Lawdragon,
October 2006
Competitors in the M&A area say that Brian McCarthy is a "bright, energetic" and "knowledgeable" attorney who has a great reputation among the business executives who have called on his dealmaking skills. He represented Credit Suisse First Boston in its role as adviser to Oracle's $10.3 billion acquisition agreement reached with PeopleSoft in December 2004. Advanced Medical Optics hired the Skadden star for its 2005 acquisition of VISX, valued at $1.4 billion. McCarthy also worked on MGM Grand's purchase of Mirage Resorts and the Times Mirror Company's sale to the Tribune Company. One fellow M&A practitioner praised McCarthy for avoiding the "bravado and bluff" of negotiations and focusing on "the issues to get deals done."
— Lawdragon,
October 2005
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