Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a leading counselor to global financial institutions and corporations, announced today that it advised Mercuria Energy Group Limit, a global energy and commodities trading company, on the closing of its acquisition of J.P. Morgan’s physical energy and commodities business.

Mercuria’s legal team was led by Mark Greenberg, Mercuria’s top lawyer in North America, and Cadwalader partners Robert Stephens (Corporate) and Ira Schacter (Corporate), and special counsel Aly El Hamamsy (Corporate). The Global effort brought to bear Cadwalader’s regulatory, tax, antitrust, and commodities teams including partners and counsel Greg Lawrence (Regulatory), Richard Nugent (Tax), Daryl Rice (Commodities), and Vanessa Tanaka (Commodities), Jonathan Kanter (Antitrust), and Anne MaGregor (Antitrust).