Skadden has one of the most successful mergers and acquisitions practices in the region. We have significant cross-border M&A capabilities and unrivalled experience in structuring and executing complex transactions. We have advised on some of the largest and highest-profile deals in Russia in recent years. Following on from a successful year in 2007 in which the firm ranked first for M&A transactions by deal value in Russia and the CIS according to mergermarket's 2007 league tables, in 2008 the firm topped the Thomson Reuters tables in both Russia and Eastern Europe for any involvement in completed M&A deals by value.