Craig F. Arcella is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. He represents both financial institutions and corporate clients in a wide variety of matters, including capital markets transactions, mergers & acquisitions and syndicated loan transactions.
Mr. Arcella’s clients have included IBM, State Street Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Frontier Communications, Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., INEOS Group and White Mountains Insurance Group. Mr. Arcella has also represented Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in equity, high-yield bond and leveraged acquisition transactions. He is also actively involved in the Firm’s Latin American capital markets finance practice.
Mr. Arcella has been cited as one of the country’s leading practitioners in securities law by, among others, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2011 and 2012; The Legal 500 from 2009 through 2011; and IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms from 2010 through 2012. Mr. Arcella was also recognized by The Legal 500 for his transactional work in the telecoms and broadcast industry in 2010 and 2011.
Mr. Arcella was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Duke University in 1995 and a J.D. from Columbia University in 1998 where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a member of the Law Review. He joined Cravath in 1998 and became a partner in 2007. Mr. Arcella worked in Cravath’s Hong Kong Office in 1999 and the Firm’s London Office from 2001 to 2003, and is currently based in the Firm’s New York Office.
Mr. Arcella may be reached by phone at 212-474-1024 or by email at carcella@cravath.com.