Ravi Purushotham is a Partner in the Firm’s Financial Institutions Practice. Ravi focuses on advising banks, investment firms and public and private companies in a broad range of complex transactions in the financial services industry, such as public and private mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, investments and joint ventures. He also regularly advises clients on governance and regulatory matters and special committee matters. Ravi was named “Financial Services Dealmaker of the Year” at The Deal Awards in 2022 and was recognized as an “MVP” in Banking by Law360 in 2023.
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Work Highlights
- CrossCountry Mortgage in its pending acquisition of Two Harbor Investment Corp., topping a previously announced transaction between United Wholesale Mortgage and TWO
- Brex in its pending acquisition by Capital One Financial Corporation in a stock/cash transaction valued at $5.15 billion
- Bayview in its approximately $1.3 billion agreement to acquire Guild Holdings
- Sixth Street in its consortium acquisition of the GreenSky lending and servicing platform and associated loan assets from Goldman Sachs, its acquisition of the SPS Residential Mortgage Servicing business from UBS/Credit Suisse and its acquisition of Global Lending Services
- TD Bank in multiple transactions including its $13.4 billion acquisition of First Horizon (terminated), $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen, sale of Cowen’s legacy prime brokerage and outsourced trading business to Marex Group, $26 billion sale of its affiliate TD Ameritrade to Schwab and $14.4 billion sale of Schwab stock
- EverBank in its $261 million acquisition of Sterling Bank & Trust from Sterling Bancorp and its acquisition of the Life Premium Finance division from Primis Bank
- Carlyle in its acquisitions of The Hilb Group and Medline, Carlyle in its minority investment in CAPTRUST and Carlyle and Sedgwick in their acquisition of York Risk Services and the legal spend management (LSM) division of Bottomline Technologies
- BTG Pactual in its entry into the U.S. banking market through its proposed acquisition of M.Y. Safra Bank
- U.S. Bank in its $8 billion acquisition of Union Bank from MUFG, and related carve-out of assets remaining with MUFG
Accolades
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2023 “MVP” in Private Equity, Law360
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2022 “Financial Services Dealmaker of the Year,” The Deal
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2008 J.D.
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Williams College, 2000 B.A.
Ravi Purushotham is a Partner in the Firm’s Financial Institutions Practice. Ravi focuses on advising banks, investment firms and public and private companies in a broad range of complex transactions in the financial services industry, such as public and private mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, investments and joint ventures. He also regularly advises clients on governance and regulatory matters and special committee matters. Ravi was named “Financial Services Dealmaker of the Year” at The Deal Awards in 2022 and was recognized as an “MVP” in Banking by Law360 in 2023.
Ravi’s recent matters have included:
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- CrossCountry Mortgage in its pending acquisition of Two Harbor Investment Corp., topping a previously announced transaction between United Wholesale Mortgage and TWO
- Brex in its pending acquisition by Capital One Financial Corporation in a stock/cash transaction valued at $5.15 billion
- Bayview in its approximately $1.3 billion agreement to acquire Guild Holdings
- Sixth Street in its consortium acquisition of the GreenSky lending and servicing platform and associated loan assets from Goldman Sachs, its acquisition of the SPS Residential Mortgage Servicing business from UBS/Credit Suisse and its acquisition of Global Lending Services
- TD Bank in multiple transactions including its $13.4 billion acquisition of First Horizon (terminated), $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen, sale of Cowen’s legacy prime brokerage and outsourced trading business to Marex Group, $26 billion sale of its affiliate TD Ameritrade to Schwab and $14.4 billion sale of Schwab stock
- EverBank in its $261 million acquisition of Sterling Bank & Trust from Sterling Bancorp and its acquisition of the Life Premium Finance division from Primis Bank
- Carlyle in its acquisitions of The Hilb Group and Medline, Carlyle in its minority investment in CAPTRUST and Carlyle and Sedgwick in their acquisition of York Risk Services and the legal spend management (LSM) division of Bottomline Technologies
- BTG Pactual in its entry into the U.S. banking market through its proposed acquisition of M.Y. Safra Bank
- U.S. Bank in its $8 billion acquisition of Union Bank from MUFG, and related carve-out of assets remaining with MUFG
Ravi received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and his B.A. from Williams College in 2000. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.