Weil, Gotshal & Manges Advises Great Lakes Chemical Corporation in Merger with Crompton Corporation to Become Chemtura Corporati

Weil, Gotshal & Manges Advises Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
in Merger with Crompton Corporation to Become Chemtura Corporation 


NEW YORK, July 1  /PRNewswire/ -- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the
world's leading law firms, advised Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (GLK) in
its merger with Crompton Corporation (CK).

The combined company becomes Chemtura Corporation, the fourth-largest publicly
traded U.S. specialty chemicals company and the world's largest plastics
additives company.  Chemtura has a market capitalization of approximately $3.3
billion and will begin trading under the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol
CEM on July 5.

  Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

   Corporate
   Partners: Thomas Roberts, Jay Tabor
   Associates: Elizabeth Kemery, Lindsay Germano, Cinthia Trajtenberg

   Tax
   Partner: Martin Pollack
   Associate: Jen Zheng

   Antitrust
   Partner: Steve Newborn
   Associate: Carrie Anderson

   Benefits
   Partner: Andrew Gaines
   Associate: Jill Chessler

   Environmental
   Partner: Annemargaret Connolly
   Associate Connie Ericson



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attorneys, including approximately 300 partners.  Weil Gotshal is headquartered
in New York, with offices in Austin, Boston, Brussels, Budapest, Dallas,
Frankfurt, Houston, London, Miami, Munich, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Silicon
Valley, Singapore, Warsaw, Wilmington and Washington, D.C. 

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