Ropes & Gray Advised New Mountain Capital in Acquisition of Jensen Hughes

Ropes & Gray advised New Mountain Capital in its agreement to acquire Jensen Hughes from Gryphon Investors. New Mountain Capital is a growth-oriented investment firm with approximately $60 billion in assets under management. Jensen Hughes is a global leader in fire protection engineering and nuclear risk engineering supporting clients in more than 100 countries. The transaction was announced on August 5 in a press release. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partners Andrew Silver and Garrett Charon, and included tax partner Adam Greenwood; executive compensation & benefits partner Danna Kivell; labor and employment partner Richard Kidd; finance partner Stefanie Birkmann; IP transactions partner Jordan Altman; ACIR partner Emerson Siegle; health care partner Christina Bergeron; antitrust partners Lisa Kaltenbrunner, Jonathan Klarfeld, and Ruchit Patel; HSR partner Deidre Johnson; litigation & enforcement partner David Hennes; private equity partners Libby Todd and Fabrizio Scaparro; real estate partner Sally Davis; environmental partner Peter Alpert; ESG partner Michael Littenberg; and representation & warranty insurance counsel Alison McLaughlin and Heather Sprague.