Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising International Paper (NYSE: IP) on the combination of its North America Consumer Packaging business with Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK). The transaction, valued at $1.8 billion, creates a leading consumer packaging platform and is expected to close in early 2018.

International Paper is a leading global producer of renewable fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper products with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa and Russia.

The Debevoise team is led by partners Michael A. Diz and Jeffrey J. Rosen and includes partners Lawrence K. Cagney, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Pierre Maugüé, Paul M. Rodel and Peter F.G. Schuur; counsel Daniel Farrell, Stuart Hammer and Christopher Rosekrans; and associates Valerie A. Campbell, Katherine E. Durnan, Brooke A. Fodor, Andrew G. Jamieson, Tigist Kassahun, Daniel Priest, Nicholas C.H. Roper and Tiantian Amy Zhu.

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