The firm has taken the lead advising Swiss chocolate maker Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli on its acquisition of Russell Stover Candies for a reported $1.4 billion, as well as a banking unit of Brazil’s BTG Pactual Group on its $1.7 billion buy of BSI, the Swiss private bank of Italian insurer Generali Group.
It was the second deal in two weeks that Skadden has handled for Sao Paulo-based BTG Pactual—whose predecessor BTG poached former firm partner Jonathan Bisgaier in 2008 to become its general counsel, as noted in an October 2010 feature story by The American Lawyer about the burgeoning legal market in Brazil. A year later, Bisgaier, who helped Skadden open its first Latin American office in Sao Paulo, turned to his former colleagues to advise BTG on its $2.5 billion merger with Banco Pactual, the Brazilian unit of Swiss banking giant UBS.
