Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised MetLife Investment Management in connection with a $1.2 billion managed secondary transaction, which included a $975 million portfolio disposition of MetLife affiliate private equity and equity co-investment assets to its newly raised fund, MetLife Investment Private Equity Partners II. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

The Debevoise team was led by investment management partners Andrew Gershon and Joe Binder and included partner Jane Engelhardt, counsel Jennifer Cestaro, international counsel Jin-Hyuk Jang, associates Eleonora Bonafede, Nicole Jaeckel, Lily Picon, Sasha Semach and Thomas Toman III, law clerks Kayla Staley, and corporate staff attorneys Natasha Alexis, Adrian Dlaboha, Rabia Samadi, David Swiedler and Massy Vainshtein, employee benefits and executive compensation partner Franklin Mitchell and counsel Douglas Hirn, finance counsel Gary Murphy and associate Ines Tulic, tax partner Rafael Kariyev, counsel Yehuda Halpert, associates Charles Cartiglia, Jay Evans, Corey Mavleos and law clerks Lauren Lin and Isabel Shipman, capital markets partners Eric Juergens and Peter Loughran, and restructuring partners Natasha Labovitz and Sidney Levinson, associate Michael Godbe and law clerk Alex Mendoza.