UPDATE: 7/14/14, 2:50 p.m. EDT. The names of the lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advising KKR have been added to the 10th paragraph of this story.
Only a few days after Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom topped the first half M&A league tables for legal advisers, the firm grabbed roles advising the Archer Daniels Midland Company on its $3.1 billion buy of natural ingredient flavoring firm Wild Flavors, as well as Video Gaming Technologies (VGT) on its $1.3 billion sale to Australian gambling-machine maker Aristocrat Leisure.
