Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel is pleased to announce that it was named Law Firm of the Year at the Association for Corporate Growth’s Champion’s Awards Gala on Monday at Sotheby’s New York. The awards honor outstanding achievements in the middle market M&A industry in the New York Region.
The awards are a collaboration of The M&A Advisor and ACG, an association in New York City representing 900 middle market deal-making professionals. An independent body of experts, who represent a cross-section of the middle market industry, picked the winners in 25 categories from a broad field of nominees.
Kramer Levin’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice represents buyers and sellers from all over the world with a particular focus on the middle market. The firm’s current M&A transaction mix includes strategic, distressed and private equity deals. The group was also recently recognized by Legal 500 U.S. 2011, which ranked Kramer Levin in the top tier for middle market mergers, acquisitions and buyouts.
Recent notable representations for the firm include the representation of RiskMetrics Group in its acquisition by MSCI; advising Genco Shipping & Trading in its acquisition of assets of Bourbon-Setaf; the representation of Stone Point Capital in its formation of NXT Capital; the representation of Alloy - originators of Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries - in its acquisition by an investor group led by Zelnick Media; and M&A transactional work related to the representation of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chrysler bankruptcy.