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Robinson & Cole Listed in The Legal 500

7.06.12
The Legal 500 United States has listed Robinson & Cole’s mergers and acquisitions practice in the mergers, acquisitions and buyouts category under “M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m).” Published for over 20 years, The Legal 500 series provides comprehensive worldwide coverage on legal services providers in over 100 countries.

Below is the firm’s entry in the book, which includes quotes from clients and examples of the firm’s work.

Operating out of New York, Boston, Hartford and Stamford, Robinson & Cole LLP focuses primarily on strategic transactions, with particular strength in the areas of technology, media, telecommunications and internet; consumer products, including food and beverage and apparel; financial services; and manufacturing. One client’s business and legal teams ‘give the practice very high marks for its knowledge of our business and the issues we care about, the speed of turnaround and quality of advice, and appropriateness of staffing. We consider the firm’s attorneys to be high-value providers, and very cost-effective’. The practice acted for Affinion Group in the acquisition of Prospectiv Direct, an online performance marketing company with expertise in connecting women to brands; represented IM Ready-Made, Isaac Mizrahi’s design and licensing business, in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets to Xcel Brands; assisted The Nielsen Company in connection with its acquisition of an equity interest in Neurofocus, a company specializing in neuromarketing research; and advised Reflexite Corporation in its merger with ORAFOL Europe, intended to create one of the world’s leading reflective materials, graphic products, and industrial tapes groups. Stamford and New York-based Eric Dale chairs the business transactions group. Dale’s ‘skills, commitment and work are outstanding’.