Ropes & Gray Advises Kohlberg & Company on Acquisition of CIBT Global

In The News
June 5, 2017

Ropes & Gray represented Kohlberg & Company, L.L.C. (Kohlberg) in its acquisition of CIBT Global, Inc., a leading global provider of travel visa and immigration services to corporations, travel management companies, and individuals. The transaction was announced on June 1. Additional details were not disclosed.

Kohlberg is a leading private equity firm headquartered in New York. Since its inception in 1987, Kohlberg has organized eight private equity funds, through which it has raised $7.5 billion of committed equity capital. Over its nearly 30-year history, Kohlberg has completed 70 platform investments and over 150 add-on acquisitions, with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $10 billion.

The deal team included tax & benefits partners Jennifer Rikoski and Eric Elfman (both of Boston), labor & employment partner Megan Bisk (Boston), litigation partner Peter Welsh (Boston), labor & employment counsel Jenny Cooper (Boston), antitrust counsel Deidre Johnson (Boston), finance associate Ethan Scheinberg, corporate associate Elizabeth Langton (both of New York), real estate associates Jo Greaves, and Katherine Hyland (all of Boston), government enforcement associate Kurt Fowler (both of Chicago), tax associate Michael Mendelevich (Boston), IP transactions associate Giancarlo Lee (New York), corporate paralegals June Hudson (New York) and Trinidad Reyes (both of New York), and finance paralegal Amy Chappel (Boston).