Ravi Purushotham

Ravi Purushotham is a Partner in the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Ravi focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, investments, joint ventures and other corporate transactions for a broad range of public and private companies, banks and private equity firms. He also regularly advises public companies and boards of directors on governance, shareholder activism and special committee matters. Ravi was named “Financial Services Dealmaker of the Year” at The Deal Awards in 2022 and was recognized as an “MVP” in Banking by Law360 in 2023.

Ravi’s recent matters have included:

• TD Bank in its $13.5 billion acquisition of First Horizon (terminated), its acquisition of Cowen Inc. ($1.3 billion), and in the sale of its affiliate, TD Ameritrade, to Schwab for $26 billion in an all-stock deal
• U.S. Bank in its $8 billion acquisition of Union Bank from MUFG, and related carve-out of assets remaining with MUFG
• TransUnion in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Neustar and $515 million acquisition of the financial services division of Verisk Analytics
• Computershare in its acquisition of the Corporate Trust Business from Wells Fargo for $750 million
• Vroom in its $300 million acquisition of United Auto Credit Corporation
• Bread in its $450 million sale to Alliance Data (now known as Bread Financial)
• NewStar Financial in its acquisition by First Eagle Investment Management and concurrent $2.4 billion sale of assets to an investment fund sponsored by GSO Capital Partners LP
• CBRE Acquisitions Holdings, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by CBRE Group, Inc., in its $1.5 billion business combination with Altus Power, Inc.
• KKR in its acquisitions of Barracuda Networks, 1-800 Contacts, BMC Software, Bay Club, PharMerica, BrightSpring Health Services, Nature’s Bounty and Mills Fleet Farm, and other transactions, including the recent sale of The Bountiful Company to Nestlé for $5.75 billion and related carve-outs 
• BC Partners in its investment in EAB and acquisition of NAVEX Global, along with BC Partners’ $8.7 billion take-private of PetSmart Inc. and PetSmart’s subsequent acquisition of Chewy, Inc.
• Carlyle in its acquisitions of The Hilb Group and Medline, and Carlyle and Sedgwick in their acquisition of York Risk Services
• Lightyear Capital and Advisor Group in the sale of Advisor Group to Reverence Capital Partners
• J.C. Flowers in the sale of Chi-X Asia Pacific Holdings, Ltd. to Cboe Global Markets, Inc. and in the sale of its stake in Cabot to Encore
• Asbestos divestiture transactions: Crane Holdings (removing approximately $580 million of liability from the balance sheet), ITT Inc. (removing approximately $818 million of liability from the balance sheet) and BorgWarner Inc. (removing approximately $723 million of liability from the balance sheet)

Ravi received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and his B.A. from Williams College in 2000. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.