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Sean M. Ewen is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, public offerings and general corporate and securities law.  He also advises clients on SEC compliance issues and corporate governance matters.

Experience

Sean has advised on the following significant matters:

  • Advised the Special Committee of The Westaim Corporation (TSXV: WED) in connection with the creation of an integrated insurance and asset management platform by CC Capital and The Westaim Corporation
  • Resideo Technologies in connection with its $600 million Rule 144A offering of senior notes
  • Mueller Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MLI) in its acquisition of Nehring Electrical Works Company
  • Resideo Technologies in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Snap One Holdings Corp. and related $500 million PIPE investment from Clayton Dubilier & Rice
  • SageSure in its proposed acquisition of GeoVera Advantage Insurance Services, Inc., the managing general agent of GeoVera, and a related client in its proposed acquisition of GeoVera’s insurance carriers 
  • Novacap in the proposed $6.3 billion take-private of Nuvei Corporation
  • Xerox Holdings Corporation in the concurrent offerings of $350 million of convertible senior notes and $500 million of senior notes and a related tender offer
  • Solomon Partners as financial advisor to the Special Committee of SiriusXM in connection with the split-off of SiriusXM by Liberty Media Corporation;
  • Orange Insurance Exchange on its formation and launch in the Florida property insurance market;
  • Kaleyra, Inc. in its sale to Tata Communications;
  • Japan Post Insurance in its strategic partnership with KKR and Global Atlantic Financial Group;
  • ESH Acquisition Corp. in connection with its $115 million SPAC initial public offering;
  • Stone Point Capital in the formation of an independent Managing General Agency with AIG serving High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth markets;
  • Truist Insurance Holdings in its approximately $3.4 billion acquisition of BankDirect Capital Finance, a nationwide premium finance company;
  • Truist Insurance Holdings in its acquisition of BenefitMall, the nation's largest benefits wholesale general agency;
  • Exela Technologies, Inc. on its exchange of its Common Stock for 6.00% Series B Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock;
  • BofA Securities as financial advisor to South Jersey Industries, Inc. in its approximately $8.1 billion acquisition by the Infrastructure Investments Fund (of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.);
  • QBE in its sale of Westwood Insurance Agency to BRP Group, Inc.;
  • Truist Insurance Holdings in its acquisition of Kensington Vanguard National Land Services;
  • Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. in its $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga and its related offering of $2.7 billion of senior notes and subsequent offering of $1 billion of senior notes;
  • EG Acquisition Corp. in its $225 million SPAC initial public offering;
  • Stone Point Capital in its acquisition of SambaSafety;
  • Truist Insurance Holdings in its acquisition of Constellation Affiliated Partners;
  • Truist Insurance Holdings in its acquisition of Wellington Risk Holdings;
  • Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd in connection with the sale, along with Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, of their majority interest in Vault Insurance to Cornell Capital and Hudson Structured Capital Management;
  • Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. in its $200 million SPAC initial public offering;
  • Stone Point Capital in its exchange agreement with Enstar involving Atrium and StarStone U.S.;
  • RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in its more than $1 billion registered public offering of common shares and concurrent private placement;
  • Foundation Source in its acquisition by Incline Equity Partners;
  • RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in its secondary public offering of common shares by Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.;
  • RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in its $1.5 billion deal to acquire Tokio Millennium Re, the reinsurance platform of Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.;
  • Glatfelter Insurance Group in its acquisition by American International Group, Inc.;
  • Mueller Industries in its acquisition of ATCO Rubber Products;
  • The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. in the sale to Stone Point Capital, the CEO and the Karfunkel Family;
  • OSG Billing Services in its acquisition of Diamond Communication Solutions;
  • Melinta Therapeutics in its acquisition of the infectious disease business from The Medicines Company;
  • OSG Billing Services in its acquisition of Microdynamics Group and NCP Solutions;
  • Assurant, Inc. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of The Warranty Group;
  • Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. and Vatera Healthcare Partners, Melinta’s majority shareholder, in Melinta’s merger with Cempra, Inc.;
  • Aquiline Capital Partners in its acquisition of OSG Billing Services;
  • SourceHOV in its $2.8 billion merger agreement with Novitex and Quinpario to form Exela Technologies;
  • Allied World in its acquisition by Fairfax Financial for $4.9 billion in cash and stock;
  • Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in its series of three multi-tranche, multi-market offerings of senior notes aggregating $20.4 billion to finance its pending acquisition of Actavis Generics, the worldwide generic pharmaceutical business of Allergan plc.;
  • Certain shareholders of cryotherapy company Galil Medical in its sale to BTG;
  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors for Arbor Realty Trust in connection with Arbor Realty Trust’s pending acquisition of Arbor Commercial Mortgage’s agency platform;
  • BB&T Corporation in its acquisition of Swett & Crawford from Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford for $500 million in cash;
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals in its $6.75 billion aggregate stock offerings supporting its pending acquisition of Actavis Generics;
  • Vatera Healthcare Partners in the consortium acquisition of a controlling stake in Alvogen;
  • First Reserve in the approximately $267 million sale of its stake in Enstar, the owner and manager of diversified insurance companies, to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board;
  • Mueller Industries, Inc. and Atlas Holdings LLC in the acquisition of Tecumseh Products;
  • Mueller Copper Tube Products, Inc. in the acquisition of Great Lakes Copper Ltd.;
  • BB&T Insurance Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of BB&T Corporation, in its deal to significantly increase its partnership interest in AmRisc, LP and in BB&T Corporation’s related deal to sell American Coastal Insurance Company to certain members of the AmRisc management team;
  • BofA Merrill Lynch as financial advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pike Corporation in the sale of the company;
  • The Wright Insurance Group in connection with its sale to Brown & Brown;
  • Torus Insurance Holdings Limited in connection with its sale to Enstar Group Limited;
  • Pearl Therapeutics, Inc. in connection with its sale to AstraZeneca;
  • Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. in connection with its repurchase of shares from the Icahn Group;
  • Kenneth Cole in his merger agreement to take Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. private;
  • Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG in connection with its proposed merger with Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.;
  • WRM America in its acquisitions of RMI Consulting and Fidelity National Financial’s flood insurance business;
  • Ventas, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Cogdell Spencer Inc.;
  • MLM Information Services and Warburg Pincus in connection with Warburg Pincus’ sale of MLM to the parent company of Corporation Service Company;
  • Wall Street Systems in connection with its sale to ION Trading;
  • ev3 Inc. in its acquisition by Covidien plc;
  • Cablevision independent directors in connection with the spin-off of the Madison Square Garden business;
  • Polypore International, Inc. in connection with its initial public offering, secondary offerings of common stock and Rule 144A debt offering;
  • RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in connection with its debt and preference share offerings;
  • Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG in connection with its initial public offering and debt offerings, and its re-domestication to Switzerland;
  • EG Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by EnTrust Global and GMF Capital, in its business combination with flyExclusive, a leading private jet company.

Credentials

Education


University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2004 Swarthmore College, B.A., 1999

Bar Admissions


New York, 2005

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