Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Steven Cohen and Cohen Private Ventures in the $2.4 billion acquisition of the Mets from Sterling Equities and the Wilpon and Katz families. For more information, see the press release.

Mr. Cohen is the founder of the hedge fund Point72 Asset Management and a lifelong Mets fan who previously owned an 8 percent stake in the team. Sterling Equities, co-founded by Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, is a diversified, family-run group of companies. Its portfolio is focused on holdings in real estate, sports, and media in the New York area.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Jeffrey Rosen and Bill Regner and includes M&A counsel Andrew Jamieson and associates Emily Huang, Shlomo Fischer, James Malmo and Joel Salomon, finance partners Scott Selinger and Jeffrey Ross, counsel Katarina Molnarova and associate Thomas Heiser, benefits partner Jon Lewis and associate Zain Kazmi, tax partners Peter Furci and Michael Bolotin and associates Erasmo Perez and Samuel Krawiecz and real estate partner Nicole Mesard and associates Richard Grossmann and Alexander Djaha.