Ropes & Gray Advised TPG in Acquisition of Learfield

Ropes & Gray represented TPG in its definitive agreement to acquire Learfield, the nation’s leading media and technology company powering college athletics. The announcement was made in an April 14 press release. Financial terms were not disclosed.

TPG is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $303 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world.

The Ropes & Gray team includes private equity partners Jay Freedman and Chau Le, counsel Jeremy Zucker and Peter Wang, finance partners Chris Holt and Alex Zeltser, tax partners Tristan Evans-Wilent and Benjamin Rogers, executive compensation & benefits partner Matt Jones and counsel Rebecca Liu, employment partners Stephanie Bruce and Richard Kidd, intellectual property transactions partner Erica Han, data, privacy & cybersecurity partner Fran Faircloth, litigation & enforcement partners Jackie Grise and Alex Simkin and counsel Heather Sprague, and strategic transactions counsel Jimmy Chen.