Cravath Publishes Winter 2026 Issue of Alumni Journal
Cravath regularly represents consumer products and services leaders in a wide range of corporate and litigation matters in the U.S. and around the world. Our clients include companies throughout the consumer products and services industries, from traditional brick-and-mortar stores to multinational e‑commerce businesses.
Our lawyers have outstanding capabilities in the areas of food and beverage, household products and personal care, leisure and recreation and luxury goods. Cravath’s corporate lawyers advise our consumer products and services clients in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as well as in divestitures of brands and products. We have significant experience in executing bank financings, IPOs and other securities offerings in the consumer products and services space.
The Firm has also handled critical litigation for companies in these industries involving diverse areas of the law, including product liability, antitrust, RICO, trademarks, general commercial and securities.
Our lawyers have outstanding capabilities in the areas of food and beverage, household products and personal care, leisure and recreation and luxury goods. Cravath’s corporate lawyers advise our consumer products and services clients in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as well as in divestitures of brands and products. We have significant experience in executing bank financings, IPOs and other securities offerings in the consumer products and services space.
The Firm has also handled critical litigation for companies in these industries involving diverse areas of the law, including product liability, antitrust, RICO, trademarks, general commercial and securities.
Deals & Cases
April 10, 2026
Cravath represented the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner in connection with a $2.5 billion revolving credit facility made available to Expedia Group, Inc., one of the world’s largest online travel companies. The transaction closed on March 27, 2026.
Deals & Cases
March 13, 2026
Cravath represented the underwriters in connection with the $2.5 billion registered senior notes offering of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., a global cruise company. The notes were listed on The International Stock Exchange. The transaction closed on February 27, 2026.
Deals & Cases
February 24, 2026
On February 24, 2026, ADT, a leading provider of security, interactive and smart home solutions serving residential and small business customers in the U.S., announced it has acquired Origin Wireless, Inc. (“Origin”), bringing Origin’s AI sensing platform and related intellectual property into the ADT ecosystem. The purchase price for the transaction was $170 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. Cravath is representing ADT in connection with the transaction.
Deals & Cases
February 02, 2026
On February 2, 2026, Hain Celestial Group, a leading global health and wellness company, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its North American Snacks business, including Garden Veggie Snacks™, Terra® chips and Garden of Eatin’® snacks, to Snackruptors Inc., a Canadian, family‑owned snacks manufacturer, for $115 million in cash. Cravath is representing Hain Celestial Group in connection with the transaction.
Deals & Cases
January 28, 2026
Cravath represented the initial purchasers in connection with the $1 billion 144A/Reg. S high‑yield senior notes offering of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, Canada's Wonderland Company and Millennium Operations LLC. Six Flags is North America’s largest regional amusement‑resort operator with 26 amusement parks, 15 water parks and nine resort properties across 16 states in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The transaction closed on January 14, 2026.
Activities
April 13, 2026
Cravath partner Faiza J. Saeed was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s annual “Power Lawyers” list, which recognizes attorneys at the “top of their field” who “help keep the wheels of the industry turning” and was published in the April 8, 2026 issue of The Hollywood Reporter Magazine. The feature highlighted Faiza’s representation of Paramount Skydance in its pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. and the Paramount Special Committee in connection with the company’s $8.4 billion merger with Skydance. She was also recognized for her representation of Hailey Bieber in rhode’s $1 billion acquisition by e.l.f. beauty. This is Faiza’s ninth year being recognized as a “Power Lawyer.”
Activities
March 25, 2026
On March 24, 2026, Cravath partners Robert I. Townsend III, Michael E. Mariani and Jin‑Kyu Baek were featured as 2026 “Dealmakers of the Year” by The American Lawyer in recognition of their representation of Kenvue in its $48.7 billion acquisition by Kimberly‑Clark. Putting together two companies of their size “is always a complex process,” said Mike. Added Bob, “from the Kenvue perspective, there was definitely a desire to either get to a transaction or pursue one of the other strategic alternatives” the board had considered – “it was a tremendous effort by the entire [Kenvue] management team.”
Activities
March 13, 2026
On March 11, 2026, at its annual U.S. Awards in New York, Benchmark Litigation honored Cravath partner Antony L. Ryan as its “Securities Litigator of the Year.” The awards recognize “the country’s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the past twelve months.” At the awards ceremony, Benchmark Litigation highlighted Antony’s successful representation of Robinhood in the sprawling and high‑profile “meme stock” litigation.
Activities
March 05, 2026
On February 11, 2026, Cravath was featured by Law360 as a “Competition Practice Group of the Year” in recognition of the Firm’s work on high‑stakes antitrust litigation and merger clearance. The profile highlighted the Firm’s trial victory for American Express, in which a jury unanimously found the company not liable for antitrust claims in a class action suit, and the successful dismissal of more than 50 lawsuits in MDL proceedings for Louis Dreyfus Co. The profile also recognized Cravath’s work for Epic Games, which includes securing a nationwide permanent injunction against Google after a trial victory that was later affirmed on appeal, and its representation of a Special Committee of Paramount Global’s board of directors in the company’s $28 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Activities
December 12, 2025
On December 9, 2025, Cravath partner Gary A. Bornstein was featured as a 2025 Competition MVP by Law360, which highlighted his representation of Epic Games in separate antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google, including securing a District Court decision that Apple violated an anti‑steering injunction, and a victory at the Ninth Circuit affirming Epic Games’ antitrust trial victory and permanent injunction against Google. In the profile, Gary discussed the satisfaction of winning difficult cases, explaining it’s “always a more gratifying victory when the outcome is not assured.” Gary also addressed the challenges of antitrust work, noting that antitrust issues are “company‑defining” and that “working as outside counsel on those cases is really counseling the senior people at the company on issues that go to the heart of their business. It requires you to have a commercial perspective on what's going on.”
Deals & Cases
April 10, 2026
Cravath represented the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner in connection with a $2.5 billion revolving credit facility made available to Expedia Group, Inc., one of the world’s largest online travel companies. The transaction closed on March 27, 2026.
Deals & Cases
March 13, 2026
Cravath represented the underwriters in connection with the $2.5 billion registered senior notes offering of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., a global cruise company. The notes were listed on The International Stock Exchange. The transaction closed on February 27, 2026.
Deals & Cases
February 24, 2026
On February 24, 2026, ADT, a leading provider of security, interactive and smart home solutions serving residential and small business customers in the U.S., announced it has acquired Origin Wireless, Inc. (“Origin”), bringing Origin’s AI sensing platform and related intellectual property into the ADT ecosystem. The purchase price for the transaction was $170 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. Cravath is representing ADT in connection with the transaction.
Deals & Cases
February 02, 2026
On February 2, 2026, Hain Celestial Group, a leading global health and wellness company, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its North American Snacks business, including Garden Veggie Snacks™, Terra® chips and Garden of Eatin’® snacks, to Snackruptors Inc., a Canadian, family‑owned snacks manufacturer, for $115 million in cash. Cravath is representing Hain Celestial Group in connection with the transaction.
Deals & Cases
January 28, 2026
Cravath represented the initial purchasers in connection with the $1 billion 144A/Reg. S high‑yield senior notes offering of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, Canada's Wonderland Company and Millennium Operations LLC. Six Flags is North America’s largest regional amusement‑resort operator with 26 amusement parks, 15 water parks and nine resort properties across 16 states in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The transaction closed on January 14, 2026.
Activities
April 13, 2026
Cravath partner Faiza J. Saeed was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s annual “Power Lawyers” list, which recognizes attorneys at the “top of their field” who “help keep the wheels of the industry turning” and was published in the April 8, 2026 issue of The Hollywood Reporter Magazine. The feature highlighted Faiza’s representation of Paramount Skydance in its pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. and the Paramount Special Committee in connection with the company’s $8.4 billion merger with Skydance. She was also recognized for her representation of Hailey Bieber in rhode’s $1 billion acquisition by e.l.f. beauty. This is Faiza’s ninth year being recognized as a “Power Lawyer.”
Activities
March 25, 2026
On March 24, 2026, Cravath partners Robert I. Townsend III, Michael E. Mariani and Jin‑Kyu Baek were featured as 2026 “Dealmakers of the Year” by The American Lawyer in recognition of their representation of Kenvue in its $48.7 billion acquisition by Kimberly‑Clark. Putting together two companies of their size “is always a complex process,” said Mike. Added Bob, “from the Kenvue perspective, there was definitely a desire to either get to a transaction or pursue one of the other strategic alternatives” the board had considered – “it was a tremendous effort by the entire [Kenvue] management team.”
Activities
March 13, 2026
On March 11, 2026, at its annual U.S. Awards in New York, Benchmark Litigation honored Cravath partner Antony L. Ryan as its “Securities Litigator of the Year.” The awards recognize “the country’s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the past twelve months.” At the awards ceremony, Benchmark Litigation highlighted Antony’s successful representation of Robinhood in the sprawling and high‑profile “meme stock” litigation.
Activities
March 05, 2026
On February 11, 2026, Cravath was featured by Law360 as a “Competition Practice Group of the Year” in recognition of the Firm’s work on high‑stakes antitrust litigation and merger clearance. The profile highlighted the Firm’s trial victory for American Express, in which a jury unanimously found the company not liable for antitrust claims in a class action suit, and the successful dismissal of more than 50 lawsuits in MDL proceedings for Louis Dreyfus Co. The profile also recognized Cravath’s work for Epic Games, which includes securing a nationwide permanent injunction against Google after a trial victory that was later affirmed on appeal, and its representation of a Special Committee of Paramount Global’s board of directors in the company’s $28 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Activities
December 12, 2025
On December 9, 2025, Cravath partner Gary A. Bornstein was featured as a 2025 Competition MVP by Law360, which highlighted his representation of Epic Games in separate antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google, including securing a District Court decision that Apple violated an anti‑steering injunction, and a victory at the Ninth Circuit affirming Epic Games’ antitrust trial victory and permanent injunction against Google. In the profile, Gary discussed the satisfaction of winning difficult cases, explaining it’s “always a more gratifying victory when the outcome is not assured.” Gary also addressed the challenges of antitrust work, noting that antitrust issues are “company‑defining” and that “working as outside counsel on those cases is really counseling the senior people at the company on issues that go to the heart of their business. It requires you to have a commercial perspective on what's going on.”
Celebrating 200 years of partnership. In 2019, we celebrated our bicentennial. Our history mirrors that of our nation. Integral to our story is our culture.
Attorney Advertising. ©2026 Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.