practice areas
honors + affiliations
Listed, USA Legal 500, Mergers & Acquisitions (2006, 2009, 2012)
Member, American Bar Association
Member, ABA Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions
Member, ABA Subcommittee on M&A Jurisprudence
Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
bar admissions
- New York
- Florida
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6687
Fax: 212.309.6001
Robert W. Dickey is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. Mr. Dickey's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; he also counsels clients in connection with joint ventures, strategic alliances, private placements and general corporate and compliance matters. He has been involved in a wide range of public and private transactions in a variety of industries and has represented both strategic and financial acquirors, including private equity firms, and sellers and targets.
Mr. Dickey is admitted to practice in New York and Florida.
Selected Representations
Mr. Dickey's recent transactions include his representation of:
- AarhusKarlshamn AB in its acquisition of Golden Foods and Golden Brands
- AarhusKarlshamn AB in its acquisition of Oasis Foods Company
- Apollo Management in its acquisition of Linens 'N Things for $1.3 billion
- Catalent Pharma Solutions in the sale of its Albuquerque sterile injectables manufacturing business
- Deutsche Borse AG in its acquisition of the International Securities Exchange for $2.8 billion
- The Economist Group in its acquisition of Capitol Advantage for $43 million
- The Economist Group in its acquisition of Congressional Quarterly
- The Economist Group in its sale of CFO Publishing
- Interactive Data Corporation in its acquisition by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus for $3.4 billion
- Jefferies & Company in its sale of a 13.7% stake to Leucadia Corporation
- A group of LG companies in their acquisition of Eastman Kodak Company's OLED business
- Management of James River Group in its acquisition by D.E. Shaw for $575 million
- Moody's Corporation in its acquisition of BestQuotes
- The New York Times Company in the sale of its Broadcast Media Group for $575 million
- The New York Times Company in the sale of its Regional Media Group for $143 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of American Guidance Service, Inc. for $270 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of Certiport for $140 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of Connections Education for $400 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of Global Education & Technology Group for $155 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of eCollege for $538 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of Harcourt Assessment for $950 million
- Pearson plc in its sale of Pearson Data Management for $225 million
- Pearson plc in its sale of Pearson Government Solutions for $600 million
- Pearson plc in its acquisition of SchoolNet for $230 million
- Perrigo Company in its acquisition of Agis Industries for $818 million
- Reed Elsevier in its acquisition of Accuity for $530 million
- Wellspring Capital Management in its sale of JW Aluminum Company for $350 million, and subsequent re‑acquisition of the company for $310 million
- Wellspring Capital Management in its acquisition of Susser Holdings
- Wellspring Capital Management in the merger of Home Decor North America with the DSH group of companies to form Renin Corporation
education
- Duke University School of Law, 1997, J.D.
- Duke University, 1994, A.B.