Credit: Vector Tradition/Adobe Stock; The past several days have been a big week for announced deals, as Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Davis, Polk & Wardwell; Sidley Austin; and Sullivan & Cromwell, among others, all took leading roles in three mega deals worth a collective $37 billion.
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Union Pacific is acquiring Norfolk Southern Railroad, with the combination set to create America's first-ever transcontinental railroad, which the companies say was a dream first envisioned by President Abraham Lincoln.
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Dealmakers may see an uptick in paused deals once an EU trade deal is reached, "particularly those cross-border transactions that have stalled pending tariff resolution," noted Michael Deyong, co-head of M&A at White & Case.
