Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is serving as lead transaction counsel to Covetrus, a global animal health and technology and services company and portfolio company of CD&R and TPG, in its merger with MWI Animal Health, a global provider of animal health products, valuing MWI at $3.5 billion. As part of the transaction, Cencora (NYSE: COR), a parent company of MWI, will retain a 34.3% common equity stake in the combined company. For more information, please see the press release.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Spencer Gilbert and Kevin Rinker and includes partner Erik Andrén, counsel Dominique Trudelle and associates Heidi Case, Marisa Demko, Jasmine Fong, Simran Kashyap, Joesph Millard and Emma Olcott and law clerk Jaylene Yi, finance partners Jeffrey Ross and Scott Selinger, counsel Lachlan Conroy and Jonathon Yeung and associates Michael Ellis, Matthew Sacco, Kayla Staley and Hanson Yu, employee benefits and executive compensation partner Jonathan Lewis and associate Isadore Shamah, tax partner Erin Cleary, counsel Samuel Krawiecz and associate John Nelson, capital markets partner Steven Slutzky and associate Emily Cohen, IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz and associate Dylan Sanders, antitrust partner Tim Cornell, litigation partner Daniel Gitner, counsel Erich Grosz and Jacob Stahl and associate Kaitlyn McGill, regulatory partner Paul Rubin and counsel Melissa Runsten and environmental counsel Stuart Hammer.