Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Global Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition by BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) for total consideration of $3 billion of cash and approximately 12 million shares of BlackRock common stock, creating a world-leading infrastructure private markets investment platform. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Global Infrastructure Partners is an independent infrastructure fund manager.

The Debevoise team is led by investment management partner Alisa Waxman and tax partner Peter Schuur and includes investment management partner Jonathan Adler and associates Ali Nierenberg and Matthew Loy, and tax partners Stephen Jordan and Daniel Priest, associate Jay Evans and law clerk Isabel Shipman.