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Jeffrey Ross is Chair of the firm’s Finance Group and a member of its Private Equity Group and Special Situations team.
His practice focuses on complex acquisition and leveraged financings, such as the $15 billion merger of Envision Healthcare with AMSURG; Discovery, Inc. in the financing aspects of the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that values the combined entity at approximately $130 billion; the $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital by Activision Blizzard; the $5.5 billion merger of Ply Gem, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, with NCI Building Systems; and the $4.1 billion acquisition of Kindred Healthcare by TPG and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.
Mr. Ross publishes frequently on legal matters related to finance topics, including “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses the State of the LIBOR Transition,” Columbia Blue Sky Blog (August, 2021); “What’s Market: 2020 Mid-Year Trends in Large Cap and Middle Market Loans,” Practical Law (July, 2020); “Alternative Leveraged Lending Structures And Limitations,” Law360 (June, 2015); “SunGard 2.0,” The M&A Lawyer (2014); “Del Monte: Staple Remover?,” The Deal Pipeline (2012); and “Some Pitfalls In Financing Carve-Outs,” The Deal (2012). He is also a contributing author to the annual Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2019) and a former editor of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report. Mr. Ross is a guest lecturer on leveraged finance in a course entitled Private Equity Playbook at Cornell Law School and is co-chair for PLI’s Leveraged Financing and Private Equity Acquisition Financing Summit programs.
Mr. Ross joined the firm in 2005 and became a partner in 2010. He received a J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School in 1999, an M.A., first class honors, in International Relations from University of Melbourne, Australia in 1997 and a B.A. from Columbia University in 1995.
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- Access Holdings Aludyne Ambac Financial Group American Greetings Antares Artera Services Astra Capital Management Blackstone Group Booz Allen Hamilton BradyPLUS BrandSafway Carestream Carlyle Group Cerberus Capital Management Citrix Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Cloudera Cornerstone Building Brands CPPIB Cyanco DoubleVerify EMTEC Epicor Software Corporate Evergreen Coast Capital Elliott Management First Reserve Five Arrows Focus Financial Fortitude Re Gentiva Gogo HarbourVest Indicor Inovar Packaging Group International Paper J.S. Held Kelso & Company KKR LABL Oaktree Capital Management OneOncology Mercury Systems Morgan Stanley Investment Management Providence Equity Pursuit Aerospace RSC Insurance Brokerage Redwood Services S&S Activewear Savant Capital Sharp Services Shearer’s Foods SiteOne Landscape Supply Stone Point Capital SunSource Sylvamo Syniverse Holdings TIH Insurance TowerBrook Capital Partners TPG Velocity Risk Underwriters Veritiv Verizon Communications Vialto Partners Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Music Group Wellspring Capital Management Windstream Holdings White Cap Supply