Devon Pope

Devon Pope is an associate in Hughes Hubbard’s New York office in the Corporate department. Devon has a broad range of experience representing clients in stock and asset purchases, mergers, commercial contract drafting and negotiation, and general corporate governance and formation matters, including assisting non-profit entities in corporate formation. 

Prior to joining Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Devon was a corporate associate at Cullen & Dykman in New York, and Day & Associates, a boutique corporate firm in Hoboken, New Jersey. 

• Represented Munich-based condiment producer Develey Senf & Feinkost in the sale of its U.S. production facility to Chicago-based global food ingredients manufacturer Newly Weds Foods.
• Represented Sphere, a live entertainment and media company, in its acquisition of Advanced Electronic Designs, an engineering product development firm.
• Represented Geller & Company on the sale of its multi-family office business to Corient, one of the fastest-growing national wealth advisors in the U.S.
• Represented London-based Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), the publisher of the Harry Potter series, in its acquisition of the academic imprints and associated titles of Rowman & Littlefield, its biggest acquisition to date.
• Represented Knorr-Bremse AG in its approximately €630 million acquisition of the North American conventional rail signaling business of Alstom.
• Represented alternative investment firm AURELIUS in the acquisition by its portfolio company, ZIM Aircraft Seating, of HAECO Cabin Solutions from HAECO Group.
• Represented Stanadyne and its subsidiary Pure Power on their section 363 asset sale to an entity formed by Cerberus, the prepetition agent and secured lender.
• Represented Diversified Aero Services, a leading global aircraft inventory solutions provider based in Miami, FL, in its 50% sale to Marubeni Corporation, including an exit of minority investor Fortress Investment Group, and relating joint venture arrangements.
• Represented HPS Investment Partners in a cross-border carve-out acquisition.
• Represented Rheinmetall AG (RHM) in its $950 million acquisition of Loc Performance Products.
• Represented of MSG Sports in connection with the combination of Counter Logic Gaming, of which MSG Sports previously owned a controlling interest, with NRG, a professional gaming and entertainment company. As a result of the transaction, MSG Sports now owns a noncontrolling equity interest in the larger, combined NRG/CLG company.
• Represented of software service provider SETWorks, which creates software for disability service agencies, in its acquisition of EDoc, the leading electronic documentation platform for intellectual and developmental disability service agencies in Iowa.
• Represented The LiRo Group (LiRo), a preeminent engineering, architecture, and construction management group of companies, in the acquisition of the LiRo Group by Global Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (GISI).
• Represented Capital District Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, LLC, an oral surgery practice based in Albany, in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Affinity Dental Management.
• Represented Consolidated Carpet of New York, a floor covering contractor, in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Vortex Commercial Flooring of Chicago.
• Represented N&S Supply of Fishkill, a plumbing, heating, HVAC and bathroom remodeling supply company, in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Watsco, Inc. (WSO), a publicly traded company headquartered in Florida.
• Represented a National Outside Plant (OSP) telecommunications Contracting Firm in $15,000,000 reverse merger with a nationwide broadband engineering, construction and maintenance services company that partnered with a private equity firm focused in the telecommunications construction space.
• Represented two New York private investment firms in a $17,000,000 joint stock acquisition of a Midwestern concrete waterproofing construction company.