People
Cody Wright
Biography
Cody has broad experience in domestic, international and cross-border public and private buy- and sell-side M&A transactions, as well as joint ventures and similar long-term commercial arrangements. He has particularly deep experience in the acquisitions of U.S. public companies.
Cody focuses on transactions in the technology sector, including fintech, but he also has expertise in the purchase and sale of commercial credit card portfolios and regularly advises on transactions in the healthcare/pharma and mining and metals sectors, among others.
Before becoming an attorney, Cody was a software engineer for six years in the commercial aviation industry.
Prior to the merger with Allen & Overy, Cody was the partner advisor to Sterling Pride, Shearman’s LGBTQ inclusion network, and a member of Shearman’s Inclusion Task Force. He anticipates he will provide similar contributions in the combined A&O Shearman.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Emerging growth
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private client
- Tech transactions
- Global employment and compensation
Sectors
- Technology
- Financial institutions
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Mining and metals
- Communications media and entertainment
Selected experience
- Intercontinental Exchange in its acquisition of Black Knight, an NYSE-listed provider of software solutions, data and analytics to the U.S. mortgage and real estate markets, and concurrent divestitures of Black Knight’s Empower and Optimal Blue businesses to satisfy U.S. antitrust regulators.
- Dell in the sale of its consumer credit portfolio to a bank subsidiary of Bread Financial, and negotiation of a related long-term credit card program agreement.
- Presence Product Group, a full-stack product strategy and development firm, in its sale to WorkandCo International.
- Greenidge Generation, a vertically integrated power generator and bitcoin miner, in its going-public acquisition of Nasdaq-listed Support.com.
- Albemarle Corporation in its negotiation of joint venture arrangements with Mineral Resources Limited regarding lithium assets in Australia and China.
- Bakkt, a cryptocurrency custody and trading solutions business, in its: – going-public merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). – acquisition of Digital Asset Custody Company.
- Goldman Sachs and Everstone Capital Partners in their joint investments in digital engineering services firms Infostretch and QMetry, and the negotiation of related equityholders agreements.
- Intercontinental Exchange in its: – acquisition of Ellie Mae, a cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, from Thoma Bravo. – disposition of Trayport to the TMX Group. – acquisition of the TMX Group’s National Gas Exchange (NGX) and Shorcan Energy businesses. – sale of its Interactive Data Managed Solutions (IDMS) business to FactSet.
- Quantela, an urban digitization solutions provider, in its acquisition of CIMCON Lighting, a developer of smart lighting and smart city technologies.
- SpotCues, the maker of mobile communications platform Groupe.io, in its sale to UKG.
Education
- B.A., Computer Science, Yale University, 1999 J.D. magna cum laude , Yeshiva University, 2008
Admissions
- New York, 2009