Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in its acquisition of Clearpool Group, Inc. For more information, please see BMO’s press release.

BMO is one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with $852 billion in total assets as of October 31, 2019. Clearpool Group offers holistic electronic trading solutions and provides independent agency broker-dealer execution services.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partner Gregory Gooding and includes banking partners Gregory Lyons and Jeffrey Robins, associates Narine Atamian, Sandeep Dhaliwal, Danjie Fang and Clare Lascelles and law clerks Justin Maffett and David Saltzman, tax partner Michael Bolotin and associates Samuel Duncan and Molly Klinghoffer, benefits partner Meir Katz and law clerk Jeri Brown, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz and associate Benjamin Sundholm, antitrust counsel Kyra Bromley.