Sean Parish advises a wide variety of clients — including private equity sponsors, strategics, and permanent/hybrid capital — on complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.

Sean draws on his extensive transactional experience and Latham’s robust global platform to guide public and private companies, private equity sponsors, permanent/hybrid capital vehicles, and their portfolio and operating companies on:

  • AI transformation / applied AI M&A
  • Cross-border M&A
  • Leveraged buyouts of public and private companies
  • Strategic investments
  • Carveouts
  • Mergers of equals
  • Joint ventures
  • General corporate matters

He devises practical solutions for clients across multiple industries, with a particular focus on the tech, healthcare, and insurance sectors.

In the permanent capital space, Sean guides platforms, investors, sponsors, founders, and management teams on the M&A aspects of navigating long-duration, often recyclable funding to acquire and grow businesses beyond traditional investment horizons, particularly amid AI transformation.

Sean’s representative experience includes advising:

Permanent Capital / AI Transformation

  • Long Lake Management on its US$6.3 billion take-private acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel
  • Sequence AI Holdings on its US$7.7 billion take-private acquisition of The Baldwin Group

Sponsors

  • BDT Capital and its portfolio companies on several acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships
  • Onex on acquiring grocery retailer SUPERVALU’s Save-A-Lot business
  • GTCR on multiple transactions, including:
    • Acquiring Sage Payment Solutions, a payment-processing and merchant-acquiring solutions provider
    • Acquiring PathGroup Holdings, one of the largest independent laboratories in the United States
    • Acquiring Experity, a market-leading urgent care technology provider
    • Portfolio company Corza Medical’s acquisition of Katena Products, a medical device company focused on ophthalmic surgery products

Strategic

  • INDUS Realty Trust on its US$868 million acquisition by Centerbridge and GIC
  • Renewable Energy Group on its US$3.15 billion cash sale to Chevron
  • Cerner, a leading provider of digital information services used within hospitals and health systems, on its US$28 billion take-private sale to Oracle
  • FMC Technologies on its merger with Technip, a France-based designer and developer of offshore oil and gas processing facilities, via the EU cross-border merger regime
  • Aon on its US$80 billion merger of equals with Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory, broking, and solutions company (terminated)
  • Integra LifeSciences on its cross-border acquisition of Johnson & Johnson's Codman Neurosurgery business, a portfolio of devices focused on advanced hydrocephalus, neuro-critical care, and operative neurosurgery

Bar Qualification

  • Illinois

Education

  • JD, Notre Dame Law School, 2015
  • BBA in Economics, Loyola University Chicago, 2012

Languages Spoken

  • English