Ropes & Gray Advises Surgery Partners on Initial Public Offering

Ropes & Gray advised H.I.G. Capital and portfolio company Surgery Partners Inc. in connection with Surgical Partners’ underwritten initial public offering of 14,285,000 shares of common stock at $19 per share and an option to the underwriters to purchase up to 2,142,750 additional shares. The shares began trading on the NASDAQ Global Market on Oct. 1 under the ticker symbol SGRY.

Based in Nashville, Tenn., Surgery Partners is a leading operator of surgical facilities across the United States and, through its portfolio of companies, provides ancillary services including physician practices, optical solutions and laboratory services.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by mergers & acquisitions partner Carl Marcellino (New York) and included finance partner Stefanie Birkmann (New York); tax partner Amanda Holt (Boston); and health care partner Timothy McCrystal (Boston).