Latham & Watkins Advises Bunge on Completed Acquisition of Viterra Creating a US$100 Billion Global Agribusiness Company
Bunge Global SA (NYSE: BG) has announced the successful closing of its previously announced merger with Viterra Limited, marking the creation of a premier global agribusiness solutions company for food, feed, and fuel.
Latham & Watkins LLP represented Bunge in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York/Orange County partner Charles Ruck and Chicago partner Max Schleusener, with associates Alice Bradshaw, Jack DeMeulenaere, Grace Kim, Michelle Kim, Camille N’Diaye-Muller, Claudia Wang, and Eric Winnestaffer. Advice was also provided on finance matters by Chicago partner Noah Weiss and New York partner Jason Licht, with associate Will Martin and special legal consultant Jack Anderson; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Michael Egge and Caitlin Fitzpatrick, Brussels partners Carles Esteva Mosso, John Wileur, and Tomas Nilsson, London partner Ludmilla Le Grand, and Bay Area counsel Jason Daniels and Brussels counsel Philipp Studt, with associates Sebastian van Helden, Alexandra Kandalaft, Chris Brown, Rebecca Frumento, Maria Martinez, Lorenzo Sacco, Julia Weber, Susanna Dittrich Ingunza, Salomé Delboulbé, and James Mathieson with assistance from Luca Donatella, Ilaria Federici, and Rafal Sowula; on China antitrust matters by Hong Kong associate Yanyan Yang; on CFIUS matters by Washington, D.C. partner Damara Chambers, with associate Chris Caulder; on real estate matters by Chicago counsel Jeffrey Anderson, with associates Lucas Fernandez-Rocha; on environmental matters by Los Angeles/Houston counsel Joshua Marnitz; on employment, benefits, and compensation matters by Bay Area partners Maj Vaseghi and James Robinson, Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas, and counsel Laura Waller, with associate Rebecca Dixon; on intellectual property matters by New York partner Jeffrey Tochner, with associate Sebastian Moss; on data privacy matters by Bay Area partner Heather Deixler; on GDPR matters by London counsel Danielle van der Merwe; on tax matters by Washington, D.C. partner Nicholas DeNovio, with associate Abigail Friedman; on anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters by Chicago partner Meredith Monroe, with associate John Doyle; on export controls and sanctions matters by Washington, D.C. partner Andrew Galdes; on Singapore corporate law matters by associates Tommy Tan, Shi Cheng Chong, and Isabel Yu; and on insurance matters by Los Angeles partner Drew Levin, and counsel Hannah Cary.