Davis Polk & Wardwell M&A chair George Bason Jr. has sat across the table from Proctor & Gamble's in-house legal team before--most notably in 2005, when he represented Gillette when it was acquired by P&G for $57 billion.

It was no different this time around when Bason advised Irish drug-maker Warner Chilcott in its $3.1 billion acquisition of P&G's prescription drug business on Monday.

"P&G is always tough and always very professional," says Bason, who worked on the deal with corporate partner Michael Davis; finance partners Michael Kaplan and Jason Krywood; tax partner Michael Mollerus; benefits partner Edmond FitzGerald; and environmental partner Gail Flesher.

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