Debevoise Advises Spirit in Its Sale to JetBlue for $3.8 Billion

28 July 2022

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NYSE: SAVE) in its sale to JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) for $3.8 billion, for a combined enterprise value of $7.6 billion. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Spirit serves destinations throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean and is committed to delivering the best value in the sky. JetBlue carries customers to more than 100 cities throughout the United States, Latin America, Caribbean, Canada, and United Kingdom.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Gregory Gooding and William Regner and includes partner Emily Huang and associates Marisa Demko, Matthew Ryan and Niusha Tavassoli, finance partners Paul Brusiloff and Brian Liu, benefits partners Lawrence Cagney and Simone Hicks, associate Sandy De Sousa and law clerk Christopher Johnson, tax partners Michael Bolotin and Peter Furci and associates Jay Evans and Ben Lee Friedman, and capital markets partners Eric Juergens and Matthew Kaplan and associates Jason Auman and Austin Poon.