Ropes & Gray Represents Evergreen Coast Capital in Acquisition of DreamBox Learning

Ropes & Gray represented Evergreen Coast Capital Corp. in its acquisition of a majority stake in DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that pioneered intelligent adaptive learning. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction was announced on Nov. 8 in a press release. 

DreamBox supports 400,000 educators and approximately 6 million students in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. Evergreen Coast Capital, which focuses on technology investing, is part of Elliott Investment Management L.P., which manages more than $48 billion of assets.

The team representing Evergreen Coast Capital was led by private equity partner Howard Glazer (San Francisco) and private equity associate Samuel Levitt (New York), and included private equity partner Jay Freedman (San Francisco), employment, executive compensation and employee benefits partners Alexandra Alperovich (New York) and Megan Bisk (Boston), tax partner Benjamin Rogers (San Francisco), and IP transactions partner Megan Baca (Silicon Valley), private equity counsel Amy Olson (San Francisco), tax counsel Michael Mendelevich, and data, privacy & cybersecurity counsel Kevin Angle (both of Boston).