
Megan Ward Spelman
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Private Equity
- Private Equity Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Capital Solutions
- Corporate
- Finance
- Advises clients on the full spectrum of private equity and M&A transactions.
- Represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as financial institutions, public and private companies.
- Experience spans industries and capital structures.
Megan provides comprehensive advice to private equity funds, their portfolio companies, financial institutions, private companies and public companies on complex corporate transactions. Her practice encompasses private equity mergers & acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, investments, joint ventures (JVs), financings and restructurings. Megan also regularly provides “outside general counsel” advice to private companies.
Megan has executed sophisticated transactions across a broad array of structures and industries. She delivers capital solutions tailored to each client’s business objectives and investment profile.
- Advised Accenture in its acquisition of Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM).
- Advised Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in its acquisitions of Pequity and WorkForce Software.
- Advised Altas Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including in connection with its investment in PADI and its portfolio company Unified Women’s Healthcare in its acquisition of Women’s Health USA.
- Advised American Securities and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including, among others, its acquisitions of Trace3, United PF Holdings, Prince International, Grede Holdings, Aspen Dental and Royal Adhesives and Sealants and its portfolio company North American Partners in Anethesia (NAPA) in its acquisition of American Anethesia.
- Advised Affiliates of AR Global in connection with the internalization of management by Healthcare Trust; and the internalization of management as part of the merger agreement between Global Net Lease and The Necessity Retail REIT.
- Advised Biofourmis in its sale of Bifourmis Connect; and in its strategic merger with CopilotIQ.
- Advised Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a longtime investor in Sedgwick, in a recapitalization of Sedgwick in connection with a $1 billion minority investment led by Altas Partners.
- Advised Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its approximately $843 million (C$1.2 billion) investment in Tallgrass Energy.
- Advised Clearlake Capital Group in its growth investment in Crash Champions.
EducationJ.D., New York University School of Law, cum laude, 2013
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, cum laude, 2010
J.D., New York University School of Law, cum laude, 2013
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, cum laude, 2010
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
