Activist reporter Deveau departs Bloomberg

Bloomberg News reporter Scott Deveau has left the news organization after almost nine years to join Longacre Square Partners as a managing director.

He had been covering the shareholder activist beat from New York for the last four years.

Deveau has been based in Toronto as a mergers and acquisitions and money manager reporter covering Canadian deals since May 2014.

Before joining Bloomberg, Deveau covered the aerospace, airline, rail and automotive sectors for the Financial Post. He also contributed to the arts section of the National Post as a music writer and was a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Post, he worked as an online editor and reporter at the Globe and Mail from 2005 to 2007.

Deveau is a 2000 graduate of Queens University.