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- New York
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6279
Fax: 212.309.6001
Sheryl L. Orr is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. Ms. Orr's practice focuses on public and private company transactional matters, including structuring and negotiating M&A and joint venture transactions for both U.S. and cross-border transactions. Ms. Orr represents both strategic and financial acquirors in a variety of industries, including the financial services, life sciences, media, and maritime industries. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to investment banks to emerging market companies.
Ms. Orr is a member of the firm’s Financial Services M&A Practice and has represented broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other financial institutions in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, carve-out transactions, and other strategic transactions involving introducing and clearing brokers, registered investment advisers, hedge funds, asset managers, and trust companies.
Ms. Orr is admitted to practice in New York.
Selected Representations
- MetLife in its sale of independent broker-dealer affiliates Tower Square Securities and Walnut Street Securities to Cetera Financial Group
- Jefferies in its $10 billion merger of equals with Leucadia National Corporation
- Perrigo Company in its $160 million acquisition of leading companion pet health product company Velcera
- Pearson plc in its $650 million acquisition of EmbanetCompass, a provider of online learning services for nonprofit academic institutions
- Perrigo Company in its approximately $285 million acquisition of Sergeant's Pet Care Products Inc.
- Wells Fargo Securities in its acquisition of Merlin Securities, LLC
- Apollo Management and portfolio company Sprouts Farmers Market in its acquisition of Sunflower Farmers Market
- Perrigo Company in its $540 million acquisition of Paddock Laboratories
- Jefferies in its $438 million acquisition of Prudential Bache's Global Commodities Group
- Perrigo Company in its $808 million acquisition of PBM Products
- Primus Guaranty, Ltd. in its acquisition of the $25B CDO/CLO fund management business of CypressTree Investment Management, LLP
- Jefferies in its acquisition of Depfa Albany Securities
- Fincantieri-Cantieri Italiani S.p.A. in its joint venture with Lockheed Martin Corporation and the acquisition of Manitowac Marine Group
- Deutsche Börse AG in its $2.8 billion acquisition of the International Securities Exchange
- TD Ameritrade in its $325 million acquisition of Fiserv's Investment Support Services (ISS) business
education
- College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, 2001, J.D.
- Hood College, 1994, B.A.
- Cottey College, 1992, A.A.