The Walt Disney Co., the world’s second largest media conglomerate, recently announced it will purchase Pixar Animation Studios, an Academy Award® winning computer animation studio, for $7.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will acquire each share of Pixar common stock in exchange for 2.3 shares of its own common stock.  Shearman & Sterling is representing Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as financial advisor to Pixar. 

Attorneys include partner Michael Coleman (Menlo Park - Mergers & Acquisitions), and associates Bryn Jedlic (San Francisco - Mergers & Acquisitions) and Dae Kim (San Francisco - Mergers & Acquisitions).

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