New York – May 9, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is acting as U.S. counsel to the Supervisory Board of ABN AMRO Holding N.V. in connection with the company’s pending agreements to sell its LaSalle Bank subsidiary to Bank of America Corporation for $21 billion and to merge with Barclays PLC in a transaction valued at approximately $90 billion, and its consideration of other proposals relating to those transactions.
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a leading international bank with total assets of €999 billion and operates more than 4,500 branches in 53 countries. Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a leading international law firm with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The Debevoise team is led by partner Michael W. Blair and includes partners Daniel M. Abuhoff and Paul S. Bird and associates Tali Farimah Farhadian and Stephen Levey.
