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Top Women Lawyers

May 9, 2012

Alison S. Ressler

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Los Angeles Practice type: Corporate


Last May, Ressler helped lead one of the largest tech sales in the past decade, advising Skype s.a.r.l in its $8.5 billion sale to Microsoft Corp.


Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's London office helped Menlo Park-based private equity firm Silver Lake take a majority stake in Skype in 2009 for $1.9 billion. Around the time Microsoft started showing interest in the Luxembourg-based videoconferencing company, the London office was also helping Skype prepare for an i...

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