Megan Ward Spelman

Partner

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Megan Ward Spelman

Partner

mspelman@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • 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.  

Representative Work
  • 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.
  • Advised Crestview Partners and TenCate Grass Holding B.V. in the sale of a majority stake in TenCate to Leonard Green & Partners.
  • Advised The Special Committee of Duck Creek Technologies’ board of directors in connection with Duck Creek’s $2.6 billion take-private sale to Vista Equity Partners.
  • Advised EQT Infrastructure in its acquisition of Eagle Railcar Services and Lazer Logistics; and in Lazer Logistics’ acquisition of Hirschbach Motor Lines’ spotting operations.
  • Advised Five Arrows in its strategic investment, alongside existing investor Vista Equity Partners, in StarRez.
  • Advised Fortive Corporation in its acquisition of Landauer.
  • Advised General Atlantic in its $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of Arco Platform Limited; and in its growth investment in HighLevel.
  • Advised Greater Sum Ventures, alongside Blackstone, in a preferred equity investment in Inhabit.
  • Advised Hg Saturn 2 as a majority investor in the recapitalization of Sovos.
  • Advised HG Vora in an equity and debt investment in connection with Highgate’s acquisition of Viceroy Hotel Group.
  • Advised Information Resources Inc. in its acquisition of Retail Solutions.
  • Advised The Jordan Company in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of Potters Industries and TransImpact.
  • Advised Maiden Holdings in its combination with Kestrel Group.
  • Advised Monomoy Capital Partners in its acquisition of West Marine.
  • Advised New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of Classic Collision and, along with TRC Companies, in TRC Companies’ acquisition by Warburg Pincus.
  • Advised Opportunity Partners B.V. in its acquisition of BrandLoyalty.
  • Advised Orangewood Partners in its acquisition of Pacific Bells Inc.
  • Advised Patient Square Capital in its acquisition of Summit Behavioral Healthcare.
  • Advised Roark Capital Group in its acquisition of Subway Restaurants.
  • Advised SDC Capital Partners in its investment in Effectual.
  • Advised Good Sportsman Marketing in its acquisition by Gridiron Capital.
  • Advised TPG Capital in its acquisition of Transplace.
  • Advised TPG Growth and HotSchedules in the sale of HotSchedules to Marlin Equity Partners.
  • Advised Trumark Homes in its acquisition of Wathen Castanos Homes.
  • Advised Warburg Pincus in its investment in Procare Software Holdings.

List includes matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

Education
  • J.D., New York University School of Law, cum laude, 2013

  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, cum laude, 2010

Bar Admissions
  • New York

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