• Advised Columna Capital in its acquisition of Datamars with Intermediate Capital Group and Strategic Partners.
• Advised Sinopec in its petrochemicals joint venture with SIBUR.
• Advised Travelport as an interested third party in the acquisition of Farelogix by Sabre.
• Advised Stadler Rail as an interested third party in the merger of Siemens and Alstom.
• Advised Sun Capital Partners in its sale of Coveris Rigid to Lindsay Goldberg.
• Advised Harbour Energy in its acquisition of Northern North Sea assets from Shell Group.
• Advised Monsanto Company in its merger with Bayer.
• Advised Nucor Corporation in its steel joint venture with JFE Steel Corporation.
• Advised Accenture in its sale of Navitaire to Amadeus.
• Advised KKR & Co and Riverstone Holdings in the formation of their natural gas and crude oil joint venture, Trinity River Energy.
• Advised Bain Capital and Advent Corporation in their joint acquisition of Nets Holding.
• Advised the Carlyle Group in its acquisition of the Industrial Packaging Group.
• Advised Molson Coors in its acquisition of StarBev and as a third party in the acquisition of SAB Miller by AB InBev.
• Advised 3G Capital in its joint acquisition with Berkshire Hathaway of H.J. Heinz Company.

International Antitrust Investigations and Litigation

• Advised a sports governance body in connection with an abuse of dominance complaint to the EU Commission concerning its ticketing practices.
• Advised a cloud services provider in the EU Commission abuse-of-dominance investigation of NVIDIA.
• Advised IBM in the CMA cloud services market investigation.
• Advised Illumina in its appeal to the European Court of Justice of the decision to block its acquisition of GRAIL.
• Advised a major online platform in connection with various antitrust matters including issues arising from the EU Digital Markets Act and U.K. Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Act.
• Advised Crown Holdings in the EU Commission metal packaging investigation and its appeal of the settlement decision to the General Court.
• Advised Investment Company Institute in various antitrust matters.
• Advised Securing a significant settlement for a distributor of consumer electronics in a dispute with a leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
• Advised Lafarge Tarmac in the U.K. Competition Commission aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete market investigation.
• Advised Samsung SDI, a leniency applicant, in parallel cartel investigations at EU and member state level into cathode ray tubes for televisions and computer monitors.
• Advised Procter & Gamble, a leniency applicant, in the EU consumer detergents cartel investigation.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.