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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

  • 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*

  • 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 Pennsylvania, 2009