Scott J. Davis is the head of the U.S. mergers and acquisitions group at Mayer Brown LLP, and William R. Kucera is a partner in the corporate and securities group of Mayer Brown LLP. Their practices focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities, and the problems that arise in corporation law from real or perceived conflicts of interest between a company’s officers or directors and its shareholders. Davis and Kucera have each had a significant role in a number of important mergers and acquisitions involving public companies, many of them valued well in excess of $1 billion.