Four firms support McAfee’s $14 bln sale to investor group

(Reuters) - McAfee Corp has tapped Ropes & Gray and Moulton Moore Stella for the cybersecurity software maker’s $14 billion purchase by a group of six investors.

The company announced the deal on Monday amid a rise in cyber crime as many employees continue to work remotely.

The Ropes & Gray attorneys guiding McAfee are led by private equity and mergers and acquisitions partners Michael Roh, Paul Scrivano, Howard Glazer and Kate Withers, the firm said in an email.

Roh, Scrivano and Glazer also led the team that advised McAfee on its $4 billion sale of its enterprise business, according to a March firm press release.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson is working as the investor group's M&A counsel. The firm's team is led by corporate partners Brian Mangino and Amber Banks.

For finance legal guidance, McAfee’s buyers have turned to Kirkland debt finance partners Jay Ptashek and Yuli Wang; capital markets partners Michael Kim and Joshua Korff; as well as tax partners Jared Rusman and Steven Ort for guidance.

McAfee’s financial advisors are Goldman Sachs & Co LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co LLC. The buyers’ financial advisors are Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Securities, Inc, Barclays Capital Inc and Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

(UPDATE: This story has been updated with the names of the Fried Frank attorneys advising the investor group.)

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