Baker McKenzie advised S&P Global Inc. (NYSE: SPGI), one of the world’s leading providers of data, analytics, benchmarks, and market intelligence, on the separation of its Mobility business into Mobility Global Inc., a newly independent public company (NYSE: MBGL). The transaction is among the most significant recent cross-border corporate carve-outs in the global information services sector.
Baker McKenzie advised on the coordinated global legal and tax workstreams necessary to separate S&P Global’s Mobility business from its worldwide structure and position Mobility Global as an independent public company, combining sophisticated analysis, practical execution and local implementation support across jurisdictions. The spinoff builds on Baker McKenzie’s longstanding relationship with S&P Global and reflects the firm’s continued role as a trusted adviser on complex, cross-border matters.
The Baker McKenzie team was led by Transactional Partners Emily Carlisle, Charlotte Nolan, and Claudia Poernig, Tax Partners Maria Eberle, Jonathan Martin, and Sam Pollack, and Employment Partners Carl Richards and Elizabeth Ebersole. The broader team spanned multiple practices across more than 50 offices. The core team included:
- Commercial: Dmytro Skydan, Hanna Wiejowska
- Employment & Compensation: Maria Jose Casillas-Gonzalez, Felipe Graham, Natalie Graham, Erin Karnig, Angelika Makar, Georgina Moore, Emily Rayner, Steffen Scheuer, Lucille Vallet
- Tax: Abigail King, Kate Alexander, Piotr Maksymiuk, Shelbi Nelson, Christian Port, Emmanuel Sala, Julia Skubis Weber, Philip Thomas, Kiyomi Yamamoto-Leija, Shanwu Yuan
- Transactional: Marie-Francoise Brechignac, Maeve Carson, Pearlyn Chen, Chelsea Cheung, Adrian Chin, Barbara Deilmann, Nadiia Filozop, Philippe Frieden, Keiko Hachisuka, Nancy Hamzo, Saveria Laforce, Chloe Law, Anastasia Lubchenko, Roberto Macias-Saltijeral, Richard Needham, Hester Norman, Izabela Puchalska, Camila Rivera Araujo, Yuji Sato, Stefanie Tesch, Grace Tso, Jing Wern Tan, Anelis Villarreal, Naoko Watanabe, Mitchell Hopper
- Legal Project Management: Jennifer Coimbra, Ciaran Heaney
A transactional powerhouse with more than 2,500 deal lawyers in more than 40 jurisdictions, Baker McKenzie is a market-leader in cross-border and global reorganization transactions, planning, managing and implementing multi-billion dollar complex M&A, spin-off, post-acquisition integration and similar projects across numerous jurisdictions. Located in financial centers and emerging markets, the seasoned transactional team provides seamless counsel through local excellence, deep sector knowledge, commercial acumen and refined transactional techniques to maximize deal certainty and deliver maximum value to clients.