Lou R. Kling Lou R. Kling is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom LLP in New York. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, subsidiaries and divisions, including negotiated and contested acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. He has also represented borrowers, issuers, underwriters and lenders in a broad spectrum of financing transactions. Mr. Kling is a permanent member of the firm's Policy Committee, its top governing committee, and is currently co-chairman of the firm's Opinion Committee and chairman of the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee. Kling was named a Dealmaker of the Year in 2016 by American Lawyer Magazine.

Eileen T. Nugent Eileen T. Nugent is a mergers and acquisitions partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher; Flom LLP in New York. She has worked on a wide variety of acquisitions and dispositions of companies, subsidiaries and divisions, both public and private, hostile and negotiated, in the United States and around the world. A significant number of these transactions have been leveraged buyouts (LBOs), and she is co-head of the Firms Private Equity Group. Ms. Nugent has represented, a full range of transactional parties, including buyers, sellers and controlling stakeholders, boards of directors and special committees, LBO organizers and management teams, as well as investment bankers and various financing sources. She has worked on numerous recapitalizations and other reverse LBO transactions, such as initial public offerings, and is one of the firms leading practitioners in the field of M&A and restructuring of financially distressed companies.

The breadth of her experience has resulted in her being the "go-to" expert as a senior legal, business and strategic advisor to her clients, particularly in the areas of corporate governance and conflict-of-interest situations, including dealing with significant stockholders. Nugent was named to the The National Law Journal's list of 2015 ;Trailblazers. Brandon Van Dyke Brandon Van Dyke focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and corporate and securities law matters. Mr. Van Dyke has represented acquirers, targets and financial advisors in a number of significant U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, takeovers (both negotiated and contested), leveraged buyouts and other corporate matters. In addition, he has provided transactional advice to companies implementing corporate restructuring plans.

Industries in which Mr. Van Dyke has had substantial transactional involvement include media and entertainment, mining and metals, chemicals, pharmaceutical and health care. In 2016, Mr. Van Dyke was named a "Dealmaker of the Year" by The American Lawyer . Also in 2016, Mr. Van Dyke was named an"M&A Rising Star" by Law360 . In 2012 The M&A Advisor selected him as one of the top 40 M&A professionals under the age of 40.