Michael Aiello, chairman of Weil’s Corporate Department and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, has been selected as “Dealmaker of the Week” by The Am Law Daily for his role advising Iron Mountain in its agreement to acquire fellow industry player Recall Holdings in a transaction with a total value of approximately $2.1 billion.

A significant component of this transaction involved negotiating between companies based in the United States and Australia. According to Mr. Aiello,

“Anytime you do a cross-border transaction … there are two different statutory regimes,” commenting on the disparate securities laws between the nations.

As a result, Iron Mountain will plan for an additional listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in order to accommodate its Australian-based Recall shareholders.

In addition to this recognition, Aiello was named one of The American Lawyer’s 2015 Dealmakers of the Year and a Dealmaker of the Week by The Am Law Daily last August for his role advising Kinder Morgan in its acquisition of all the outstanding equity securities of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Management and El Paso Pipeline Partners — a transaction with a total value of approximately $70 billion.