Adam Taetle & Team Barclays

摘要

Last May, when Shuanghui International Holdings chairman Wan Long and Smithfield Foods president and CEO C. Larry Pope announced the merger of their respective companies, AdamTaetle breathed a sigh of relief. Taetle, co-head of Barclays Capital's global consumer retail group, represented U.S. pork producer Smithfield on its acquisition by conglomerate Shuanghui, the biggest-ever Chinese takeover of a U.S. business. "There were certainly moments where we questioned whether we'd be able to get it over the line," he says of the landmark $7 billion deal. With Barclays serving as Smithfield's lone adviser, the tie-up closed in late September after the company's shareholders approved it overwhelmingly.