Ropes & Gray Advises Valeas Capital Partners in CPA Firm Investment

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February 6, 2024

Ropes & Gray represented Valeas Capital Partners in a strategic investment in CPA firm Baker Tilly US, LLP. Together with another investor, the transaction marks the largest private equity investment in the U.S. CPA sector to date. The deal was announced in a Feb. 5 press release and is expected to close in June 2024. Terms were not disclosed.

Baker Tilly US, a leading advisory CPA firm, is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms with 41,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $4.7 billion.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Elizabeth Gallucci, and includes regulatory partner Christina Bergeron and tax partner Benjamin Rogers.