Merger creates a global leader in oil and gas projects that will enhance the performance of the world’s energy industry.

TechnipFMC (NYSE and Euronext: FTI) has announced that it is operating as a unified, combined company following completion of the merger of FMC Technologies and Technip. The merger creates a global leader in oil and gas projects, technologies, systems, and services that will enhance the performance of the world’s energy industry.

Latham & Watkins LLP advised FMC Technologies in the cross-border transaction with a corporate deal team led by Chicago partners Mark Gerstein, Bradley Faris and Christopher Drewry, Paris partner Patrick Laporte, London partner Richard Butterwick and Washington, D.C. litigation & trial partner Douglas Greenburg. Advice was also provided on securities law matters by Chicago partner Roderick Branch, London partner James Inness and Paris counsel Alexander Crosthwaite; on tax matters by Washington, D.C. partner Nicholas J. DeNovio, Los Angeles partner Laurence Stein, Paris partner Xavier Renard and London partner Sean Finn; on benefits and compensation matters by Chicago partner Robin Struve and London counsel Sarah Gadd; and on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Michael Egge and Jason Cruise and Brussels partner Lars Kjølbye.