Mintz Levin Represents Macgregor Group in its Acquisition by Investment Technology Group
7/15/2005
Boston, MA - Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. today announced that it represented The Macgregor Group, Inc. in its acquisition by Investment Technology Group, Inc. The all cash transaction was valued at approximately $230 million.
The privately-held, Boston-based Macgregor Group, Inc., a leading provider of trade order management technology for the global financial community, entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the New York-based Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG), a leading provider of technology-based equity trading services and transaction research. The transaction, the first of its kind in which a broker-dealer, ITG, owns an order management systems company, is expected to close in September.
Mintz Levin attorneys Bill Whelan and Scott Samuels, with assistance from attorneys Wendy Silverman, Carolyn Wiesenhahn, Ezra Baris, Yee Wah Chin, Kate Walsh, Rob Duggan, Mike Lieberman and Marianne Staniunas, counseled The Macgregor Group.
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