Ivan A. Schlager, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps and head of the firm’s CFIUS practice, represents a diverse group of clients ranging from major telecommunication providers, media and technology companies to private equity firms, manufacturing and defense companies.

Mr. Schlager has assisted in the development of successful legislative and regulatory strategies for a number of major M&A transactions. He also provides counsel on structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions to address regulatory issues. Representative transactions include: Bear Stearns in its proposed strategic alliance with CITIC Securities Co., Ltd.; Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. in its agreements with Borse Dubai to acquire all shares of OMX, which is owned by Borse Dubai; Central SAFE Investments in a pre-IPO acquisition of up to 10 percent of the non-voting common units of The Blackstone Group L.P.; Och-Ziff Capital Management Group in its sale of a 9.9 percent equity stake to Dubai International Capital LLC; America Online, Inc. in its merger with Time Warner, Inc.; Laidlaw International, Inc. in its acquisition by FirstGroup plc; Gateway, Inc. in its acquisition via a tender offer by Acer Inc. of Taiwan; Oakley, Inc. in its acquisition by Luxottica Group S.p.A.; Elgar Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition by Xantrex Technology Inc.; Eppendorf AG in its acquisition of New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc.; Global Strategies Group on its acquisition of SFA, Inc.; Maher Terminals, LLC in its acquisition by RREEF Funds L.L.C.; United Group Limited (Australia) in its acquisition of UNICCO Service Company; and Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. in the sale of its station group to the News Corporation Limited. He also represented the News Corporation in its acquisition of its interest in DIRECTV; Lockheed Martin in its acquisition of its interest in Intelsat; Univision Communications Inc. in its $13.5 billion sale to a consortium of private equity investors; and Quadrangle Group LLC in connection with the acquisition of Hargray Communications and its investment in Suddenlink Communications.

Mr. Schlager has represented a number of companies in high-profile congressional investigations and crisis management situations, including Chiron (Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.), as well as Fox Broadcasting Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. in connection with an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.

Mr. Schlager has significant experience representing clients in Exon/Florio reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). He successfully represented OAO Severstal in the CFIUS aspects of its $1.3 billion acquisition of PBS Coals Corporation, an operator of coal mines based in Germany; Global Crossing in its sale to Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte. Ltd.; Toshiba Corporation in its acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and Allco Fund Management Limited on the U.S. aspects of its acquisition of Rubicon Holdings, an Australia-based real estate fund manager.

Mr. Schlager also represented Alcatel, a French wireline and wireless telecommunications company, in its $13.4 billion merger-of-equals with Lucent Technologies Inc. This merger was one of the largest and most complex Exon/Florio cases filed with CFIUS. He led the Skadden team that negotiated a landmark national security agreement and a special security agreement covering certain government business conducted by Bell Labs. The Toshiba and Alcatel transactions were two of the largest deals approved by CFIUS in the post Dubai Ports era. Most recently, he represented Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd. (DAE) in two major acquisitions of aviation properties owned by Washington, D.C.-based The Carlyle Group: Arizona-based Piedmont/Hawthorne Holdings, Inc. for $766 million and Standard Aero Acquisition Holdings, Inc. for $1 billion.

Mr. Schlager also represented BioVeris Corporation in its approximately $605 million one-step all-cash merger with and into a wholly owned subsidiary of Roche Holdings Ltd. and Toshiba Corporation in its sale of a 10 percent stake in Westinghouse to Kazatomprom.

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Schlager served as the Democratic chief counsel and staff director to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, where he was responsible for supervising the professional staff of seven subcommittees, as well as devising the Democrats’ legislative strategy for the full committee. In this role, Mr. Schlager worked in a bipartisan fashion on:

• implementation of Exon/Florio;

• implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996;

• legislative proposals to enhance the deployment of broadband technology;

• the WTO Telecommunications Agreement/WTO implementing legislation; and

• NAFTA.

Mr. Schlager speaks and writes frequently on public policy issues, is active in national Democratic politics and was a senior adviser to Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in the 2004 presidential campaign. Mr. Schlager also serves on the board of visitors of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.

Mr. Schlager was selected for inclusion in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2009 and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2009. He also is a recipient of the Burton Award for legal writing, one of the highest literary honors in law.