A Partner in the Firm’s Tax Practice, Drew Purcell advises clients on an array of tax matters, including financing, credit, M&A, spin off, private equity transactions and fund formations. Drew’s clients have included Blackstone, Silver Lake, New Mountain and Ingersoll Rand.
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Work Highlights
- La Quinta on the spin-off of CorePoint Lodging
- Hilton Worldwide on the spin-off of its hotel ownership (as a REIT) and timeshare businesses
- New Mountain Partners on private equity and real estate funds
- Calera Capital in its $750 million single-asset continuation fund for ImageFIRST
- DigitalBridge with the formation and fundraising of its second flagship and largest fund to date, DigitalBridge Partners II, LP and with the formation and fundraising of Digital Colony Partners, LP
- DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in their acquisition of Switch, Inc.
- New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses
- Dell Technologies on the spin-off of VMware, Inc.
Education
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New York University School of Law, 2008 J.D.
magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Executive Editor, NYU Law Review
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Duke University, 2004 B.A.
magna cum laude
Associations
- New York State Bar Association Tax Section
Drew Purcell is a Partner in the Firm’s Tax Practice, where he advises clients on an array of tax matters, including financing, credit, M&A, spin off, private equity transactions and fund formations. Drew’s clients have included Blackstone, Silver Lake, New Mountain and Ingersoll Rand.
He has been recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a Next Generation Partner.
Drew’s representative transactions have included:
- La Quinta on the spin-off of CorePoint Lodging
- Hilton Worldwide on the spin-off of its hotel ownership (as a REIT) and timeshare businesses
- New Mountain Partners on private equity and real estate funds
- Calera Capital in its $750 million single-asset continuation fund for ImageFIRST
- DigitalBridge with the formation and fundraising of its second flagship and largest fund to date, DigitalBridge Partners II, LP and with the formation and fundraising of Digital Colony Partners, LP
- DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in their acquisition of Switch, Inc.
- New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses
- Dell Technologies Inc.on the spin-off of VMware, Inc.
Drew received his J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law in 2008, where he was an Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Duke University in 2004. He is admitted to practice in New York.