Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. in its $640 million sale of Cyanco to Orica. For more information, please see Orica’s press release.

Cyanco is a leader in the manufacture and distribution of sodium cyanide primarily serving the gold and mining industries in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Latin America and Africa.

The Debevoise team was led by M&A partners Christopher Anthony and Katherine Durnan Taylor and included associates Robert Geren, Alexandra Grady, Natalie Mauch and Jillian Mulroy Wright, employee benefits and executive compensation partner Meir Katz and associates Christopher Johnson, Gregory Kramer and Wendy Widman, tax partners Michael Bolotin and Stephen Jordan and associate Shanna Adler, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz, real estate counsel Daniel Farrell and associate Malina Welman, antitrust partners Ted Hassi and Timothy McIver, counsel Kyra Bromley, international counsel Anne-Mette Heemsoth and associates Kayleigh Anderson and Leah Martin and environmental counsel Stuart Hammer.