Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has advised The Vest Financial Group Inc. (Vest Financial), an investment company that provides options-based products and services, in its majority stake acquisition by Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). As a result of the acquisition, Vest becomes a majority-owned subsidiary of CBOE.

Cadwalader’s China private equity team, led by partner Rocky T. Lee, with a group of Beijing-based associates that includes Louis B. Savage, acted as transaction counsel.

“Cadwalader is proud to represent Vest Financial in this transaction which brings Vest’s cutting edge options advisory together with CBOE’s institutional knowledge, resources, and experience,” said Lee.

Cadwalader has been advising clients in China and across the region for the last 10 years, providing premier legal services to leading U.S., U.K. and European financial institutions and multinational companies doing business and investing in Asia. Cadwalader also serves China-based entities in their international business activities and investments in the U.S. and throughout the world.