At this year’s Deal Awards, sponsored by The Deal, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner Sue Meng received the award for TMT Dealmaker of the Year, and Debevoise was recognized for Healthcare Deal of the Year for the firm’s involvement in the $63 billion sale of Allergan to Abbvie. The TMT Dealmaker award comes on the heels of Ms. Meng being named Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer in March 2020 for her representation of Toyota Motor Corporation in its joint investment in Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group.
Ms. Meng is a corporate partner and member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Private Equity Groups, and Co-Chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Her practice focuses on advising public companies, boards of directors and special committees, and private equity firms in connection with mergers & acquisitions, strategic investments and other significant corporate matters. Ms. Meng represents a number of notable technology clients and investors in tech-related businesses.
Debevoise has one of the leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications practices in the United States and globally. The firm regularly handles the most challenging and important transactions in the technology, content production and information transmission and distribution industries, including broadcast and cable television, online media, telecommunications, radio and print media.
The Debevoise Healthcare & Life Sciences group employs a highly coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to address transactional, litigation and intellectual property matters for leading healthcare and life sciences companies and for private equity firms investing in the industry. The team provides integrated, cross practice legal advice with efficient and seamless execution covering all aspects of healthcare and life sciences matters, including corporate M&A, litigation and compliance, FDA/FTC regulatory, intellectual property, including licensing and collaboration agreements, and cyber security & data privacy.
The Deal Awards celebrate the exceptional advisors and service providers who power the deal economy. Winners were selected through an intensive three-step judging process, beginning with hundreds of peer nominations. The newsroom then determined a shortlist of applicants based off of in-depth interviews with leading analysts in the field, uncovering the most significant deals and dealmakers of the year. Final awardees were determined via majority vote by the publication’s top editors.