Madison Dearborn Acquires NFP Wealth Business From Aon for $2.7 Billion

Paul, Weiss advised Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, on its $2.7 billion acquisition of a significant majority of NFP’s wealth business, including Wealthspire Advisors, Fiducient Advisors, Newport Private Wealth and related platforms, from leading global professional services firm Aon plc. Under the terms of the transaction the MDP-acquired businesses will be consolidated and operate under a unified brand name.

The Paul, Weiss team was led by corporate partners Lukas Richards, Matthew Collin and Adam Givertz, and included partners Deirdre Jones, Aaron Schlaphoff, Matthew Merkle, Reva Raghavan, Prem Mohan, David Hepp, Benjamin Wilkinson and Christian Kurtz, and counsel Martin Ziessler and Nathan Mitchell; tax partners Scott Sontag, Cian O’Connor, Deeksha Rathi and Kyle O’Sullivan and counsel Daniel Bleiberg; executive compensation partner Rebecca Coccaro, and counsel Jake Glazeski, Lisa Krausz Eisenberg and Bruce Goldberger; intellectual property partners Jonathan Ashtor and John Patten, and counsel Matthew Rosenberg, Elana Bensoul and Alex Zapalowski; antitrust partners Annie Herdman and Nicole Kar and counsel Todd Hahn; litigation partners Geoffrey Chepiga and Andrew Gordon and counsel Audrey Paquet; and real estate partners Matthew Dulak and Ida Nowaid.