Tyler Silvey is counsel in the firm’s mergers & acquisitions group in the New York office. He represents public and private companies in complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures in a broad range of industries, and also advises clients on corporate governance, disclosure issues, and compliance matters. Tyler also serves as outside counsel to a number of investment banks in their capacity as financial advisor in a wide variety of M&A transactions.

Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Tyler was an associate in the New York office of another international law firm.

Experience

Tyler’s experience includes representing:

  • Becton, Dickinson and Company in its $4.2 billion acquisition of the Critical Care business of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
  • ImmunoGen, Inc. in its $10.1 billion sale to AbbVie Inc.
  • Becton, Dickinson and Company in its $540 million sale of its Surgical Instrumentation platform to STERIS
  • The Kroger Company in its pending $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies, Inc.*
  • American Securities LLC in its $1.575 billion sale of Henry Company LLC to Carlisle Companies Incorporated*
  • Skillsoft Corp. in multiple transactions including:
    • the sale of its SumTotal business to Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.*
    • its $525 million acquisition of Codecademy*
  • Software Luxembourg Holding S.A. in its $1.3 billion merger with and into Churchill Capital Corp II, a SPAC sponsored by the Churchill Capital Group*
  • Cardtronics plc in its $2.5 billion sale to NCR Corporation*
  • AK Steel Corporation in its $3 billion sale to Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.*
  • Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its investment in Flynn Restaurant Group LP*
  • WHP Global (a portfolio company of Oaktree Capital Management) in its acquisition of substantially all of the intellectual property assets of Lotto Sport Italia S.p.A.*
  • ECN Capital Corp. in multiple transactions including:
    • its acquisition of Service Finance Holdings LLC*
    • its acquisition of Kessler Financial Services*
    • its acquisition of Triad Financial Services, Inc.*
  • A number of investment banks in their capacity as financial advisor in a wide variety of M&A transactions, including the following recent transactions:
    • Victory Capital Holdings, Inc.’s pending acquisition of the U.S. business of Amundi.
    • Wintrust Financial Corporation’s pending acquisition of Macatawa Bank Corporation.
    • Global Business Travel Group, Inc.’s pending acquisition of CWT.
    • International Game Technology PLC’s pending sale of its Global Gaming and PlayDigital businesses to Apollo Global Management, Inc.
    • Golub Capital BDC, Inc.’s acquisition of Golub Capital BDC 3, Inc.
    • Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.’s defense of an unsolicited takeover proposal by Choice Hotels International Inc. 
    • Conn’s Inc.’s acquisition of W.S. Badcock.

*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray

Areas of Practice