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Morgan D. McDevitt is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Morgan’s practice spans a variety of industries and includes advising private equity firms and public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and other business combinations (both domestic and cross-border), venture financings, joint ventures and general corporate matters.

Morgan was recognized in The Deal’s “Top Rising Stars: Class of 2021.”

Experience

  • AIG in the sale of its global individual personal travel insurance and assistance business to Zurich Insurance Group for $600 million plus additional earn-out consideration
  • Metropolis Technologies, Inc. in its approximately $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of SP Plus Corporation
  • The TCW Group in its acquisition of Engine No.1’s exchange traded fund business
  • Alleghany Corporation in its $11.6 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway
  • Genstar and ISS in the sale of ISS to Deutsche Börse AG
  • NXMH BV in its acquisition of Whitebridge Pet Brands from Frontenac
  • AlixPartners in its acquisitions of Freeh Group International Solutions, Zolfo Cooper, Matrix Economics and Galt & Company
  • FIS in its merger with Worldpay

Private Equity*

  • NXMH on the $1.45 billion sale of Whitebridge Pet Brands’ North American premium cat food and pet treats business to General Mills, Inc. 
  • Garnett Station Partners in its acquisition of Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming
  • PAI Partners in connection with its $3.3 billion acquisition of Tropicana, Naked and other select juice brands across North America from PepsiCo, Inc.
  • Insight Partners in its minority investments in Calm.com, TradingView, Inc. and Seated
  • Insight Partners in its control investment in 6sense Insights
  • Court Square Capital Partners in the acquisition of Medical Knowledge Group, J. Knipper & Company, and Data Axle (f/k/a Infogroup Inc.)
  • Court Square Capital Partners in the merger of Research Now and Survey Sampling International, global providers of data solutions and technology for online market research, to form Dynata
  • Dynata, a portfolio company of Court Square Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Reimagine Holdings Group
  • A family office in the acquisition of a premium watch and accessories brand
     

Asset Management*

  • AIG in the sale of its retail mutual funds business to Touchstone Investments
  • MetLife, Inc. in its acquisition of Logan Circle Partners from Fortress Investment Group
  • Tiedemann Wealth Management in its merger with Presidio Capital Partners
  • Tiedemann Wealth Management in its acquisition of Threshold Group

Energy*

  • Buckeye Partners, L.P. in its acquisition of 20 liquids storage marine terminals from Hess
  • Buckeye Partners, L.P. in its acquisition of 33 refined petroleum products terminals from BP
  • D.E. Shaw’s renewable energy fund in its acquisition of a 20 MW solar-power electric generating facility in development

Pharma and Biotech*

  • Actin Biomed in the sale of Foresight Biotherapeutics to Shire plc
  • Perrigo Company in the sale of its active pharmaceutical ingredient business to SK Capital

Media and Technology*

  • Warner Media in its acquisition of Legendary Analytics
  • Pearson plc in its sale of PowerSchool to Vista Equity Partners

*Morgan advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie.


Credentials

Education


Cornell Law School, J.D., 2009 Colby College, B.A., 2000

Bar Admissions


New Jersey, 2017 New York, 2015