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Evan Rosen

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Diverse practice spanning M&A, joint ventures, spinoffs and governance. Represents private equity sponsors and portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses.

Evan is a member of our Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity teams. He advises corporate and private equity clients on public and private transactions, including M&A, JVs and minority investments, as well as defensive and governance matters.

Evan’s private equity clients include BDT & MSD Partners, Cerberus Capital, TruArc Partners, GrowthCurve Capital, GHK Capital, and Tailwind Capital.

Evan’s strategic clients include BlackRock, Galaxy Digital, Strive, Ripple, Nuvei, Truist, Vestwell, DailyPay, Comcast, Minute Media, GeoPark, Myers Industries and Uniti.

Evan also represents numerous successful founders and entrepreneurs, including Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble; Brian Grazer, co-founder and co-executive chairman of Imagine Entertainment; Jessica Alba, founder of The Honest Company; and Daniel Baker, founder of FlightAware.

His pro bono practice includes advising SeaChange Capital on investments helping low-income New Yorkers.

Experience

Corporate/Strategic Representations
  • Diamond Hill’s $473 million sale to First Eagle; previously advised on Napier Park’s sale to First Eagle and subsequently on First Eagle’s sale of a majority stake to Genstar
  • Vestwell’s acquisition of Accrue 401k
  • BlackRock’s agreement to manage $80 billion in Citi Wealth client assets
  • REV’s $9 billion merger with Terex
  • Summit Materials’:
    • $11.5 billion sale to Quikrete
    • $3.2 billion combination with Argos USA
  • Strive’s:
    • go-public combination with Asset Entities
    • acquisition of Semler Scientific
  • Galaxy Digital’s:
    • proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of BitGo
    • domestication to the U.S. and U.S. listing
    • acquisition of Vision Hill
  • Nuvei’s:
    • $6.3 billion take-private by Advent, Nuvei’s CEO and others
    • $1.3 billion acquisition of Paya
  • Truist’s:
    • $2 billion sale of a minority stake in Truist Insurance to Stone Point and subsequent $15.5 billion sale of Truist Insurance to a PE-led consortium
    • $2 billion acquisition of Service Finance
    • sales of Sterling Capital and BB&T
  • IHS Markit’s formation of OSTTRA, a JV with CME, and subsequently S&P Global’s $3.1 billion sale of OSTTRA to KKR
  • Bank M&A representations include UBS’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Credit Suisse, SouthState’s $2 billion acquisition of Independent Bank and $542 million acquisition of Atlantic Capital Bancshares, and First Interstate’s $2 billion merger with Great Western Bancorp
  • Billtrust’s $1.7 billion sale to EQT
  • PGT’s $3 billion agreement to be acquired by Masonite and completed $3.1 billion sale to MITER
  • Uniti’s merger with Windstream
  • ATSG’s $3.1 billion sale to Stonepeak
  • FlightAware’s sale to Collins Aerospace
  • Comcast’s:
    • proposal to acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
    • put/call agreement with Disney for NBCUniversal’s 33% interest in Hulu and sale of NBCU’s remaining interest to Disney
    • $40 billion contested acquisition of Sky
  • Bumble’s founder Whitney Wolfe Herd’s:
    • sale of a majority stake in MagicLab to Blackstone
    • $2.5 billion IPO of Bumble
Private Equity Representations
  • BDT & MSD’s acquisitions of:
    • Summit Companies
    • Culligan
    • Waterlogic
    • MJH Life Sciences
    • Balcan Plastics
    • Sealed Air’s Reflectix business
  • Cerberus’ strategic investment in S+S Industries
  • TruArc’s acquisitions of:
    • Matrix Adhesives
    • Meyer Laboratory
    • GlobalMed
    • Molded Devices
  • Goldman Sachs’:
    • $2.2 billion financing for Bass Pro’s acquisition of Cabela’s
    • sale of Suja Juice
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Recognition

IFLR1000 – M&A, United States, Rising Star Partner

Law360 – “Rising Star: Private Equity,” 2021

The Deal – “Rising Star,” 2019

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law School
  • cum laude
  • Emmett E. Eagan Award
  • Helen L. DeRoy Memorial Award
  • Executive Editor, Michigan Law Review
B.A., Finance, Emory University, Goizueta Business School
  • with distinction

Prior experience

  • Bank of America, 2006-2008

Qualifications and admissions

  • State of New York
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