Ropes & Gray LLP

We are proud to have advised Partners Group, one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, acting on behalf of its clients, on its acquisition of a majority stake in BLUESEA Hotels, a hospitality platform in Spain, in partnership with Portobello Capital, a leading independent mid-market private equity firm. Our team included Tom Alabaster, Chris Townsend, Valerio Vitelli, Steven Kaye and Eloise Edwards-Hedges.

Congratulations to private equity partner and Seoul office managing partner Jaewoo Lee who has been named to Asia Business Law Journal’s 2024 A-List of Korea’s top lawyers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/euF3bUam

We are proud to have advised long-time client Sarepta Therapeutics in a transformational global licensing and collaboration agreement with Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals for multiple siRNA programs. Our team was led by Hannah England and included Chris Comeau, Will Michener, David Saltzman, Josh Oyster, Michael McFalls, Lisa 文琳 Kaltenbrunner, Jimmy C., Deidre Johnson, Ryan Kramer and Dayna Atkins.

Since 2021, our firm has tracked the various approaches states have taken to decide how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors should be applied to the investment decisions for public retirement systems. This new white paper includes some of the state developments tracked in 2024, including an assessment of states' policymaking regarding ESG and public pension investments. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eHmg68tR

We are proud to have advised clients on $2 billion in debt offerings for clients last week. We represented the underwriters for FS KKR Capital’s $600 million registered investment-grade notes offering, the initial purchasers for Apollo Debt Solutions BDC’s $400 million bond offering, and the initial purchasers for Blackstone Private Credit Fund’s $1 billion bond offering. 

We are proud to have advised ZeroFox and Haveli Investments, its controlling sponsor, in the divestment of its subsidiary, IDX, to Kingswood Capital Management. Our team included David Hutchins, Joshua Coombes, Emily Karlberg (Lieberman), Richard Kidd, Tristan Evans-Wilent, Scott Pinarchick, Sarah Young, Matt Jones, Samer Musallam and Edward R. McNicholas. 

Our firm represented Haveli Investments in its strategic majority investment in AppViewX, a leader in automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions. Our team included Alexander (Sandy) Boer, David Hutchins, Gabrielle DiBernardi, Joshua Coombes, Douglas Brayley, Tristan Evans-Wilent, Scott Pinarchick, Matt Jones, Byung Choi and Christopher Holt, Emily Karlberg (Lieberman), Edward R. McNicholas, and David Kaye.

We are proud to have advised Zai Lab on their $200 million secondary offering. Our deal team included Thomas Danielski, Arthur Mok, Geoff Atkins, Melissa Rones, and Katherine Wang.

We are proud to represent Hearthside Food Solutions in connection with its restructuring process, including the global Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) entered-into with its key stakeholders that will right size Hearthside’s balance sheet and infuse the business with significant new capital. Our team included Natasha Hwangpo, Ryan Preston Dahl and Matthew Roose, as well as Stephen Iacovo, Eric Behl-Remijan, Bob Rivollier, Dee Kuchukulla, Allie Alperovich, Jennifer Harris, Christopher Poggi, Sam Badawi, Leonard Klingbaum, Andrea Hwang, Dan McCaughey and Peter Welsh. 

We are proud to share that Global Investigations Review has ranked Ropes & Gray 23rd in its list of the 30 best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations. GIR recognized the firm’s strong record, its global reach, and its “top-notch” client service. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/err8VbtM