Ropes & Gray Advises Gauge Capital and Schlesinger Group in its Acquisition of 20|20 Research

In The News
April 30, 2020

Ropes & Gray advised Gauge Capital and Schlesinger Group in its acquisition of 20/20 Research. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. The transaction was announced on April 21. The press release is here. 

Schlesinger Group’s addition of 20|20 Research to its portfolio adds a host of high-quality proprietary online qualitative tools as it continues to build the world's most comprehensive data collection and research services company. For Schlesinger clients, the acquisition also brings three additional focus group facilities in Charlotte, Nashville, and Miami, augmenting its already substantial portfolio of qualitative research markets to twenty across the US and eight in Europe. 

The Ropes & Gray team that advised Gauge Capital and Schlesinger Group was led private equity partner Matthew Richards (Chicago), and included finance partner Alex Zeltser (New York) and tax partner Aaron Harsh (Boston).