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Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges are taking the lead on Santa Clara, Calif.–based chipmaker Applied Materials’ acquisition of Tokyo Electron for $9.3 billion. The deal is expected to close before the end of 2014, pending the approval of regulators and both companies’ shareholders. Applied Materials has brought together a team of legal advisers led by Weil and also including Japanese firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto and Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. The Weil lawyers working on the matter include Silicon Valley partners Keith Flaum, John Brockland and James Griffin; Washington partners Steven Newborn and John Scribner; Dallas partner P.J. Himelfarb, and New York partner Ellen Odoner. Jones Day and Japanese firm Nishimura & Asahi are representing Tokyo Electron. The Jones Day team is led by Dallas-based M&A partner R. Scott Cohen and also includes Dallas partners Troy Lewis, Michael Davitt and James O’Bannon; New York partner Manan Shah; Washington partners Joe Sims, Kathryn Fenton, Ryan Thomas, Lester Droller, and Noel Francisco; London partner Ferdinand Mason; Amsterdam partners Marc Rijkaart van Cappellen and Lodewijk Berger; Frankfurt partner Carsten Gromotke; Beijing partner Yizhe Zhang; Shanghai partner Peter Wang; Tokyo partner Koichi Inoue; and Singapore partner David Longstaff. [Read full story]
