Ropes & Gray Advises New Mountain Capital in its Partnership with Pearce Services and Purchase of MaxGen Energy Services and World Wind & Solar

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May 4, 2020

Ropes & Gray advised New Mountain Capital in its partnership with Pearce Services, LLC, and Pearce’s simultaneous acquisition of MaxGen Energy Services and World Wind & Solar. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. The transaction was announced on April 14. The press release is here. 

Pearce’s acquisition of MaxGen and World Wind & Solar creates the leading technology-enabled platform providing outsourced field and engineering services for distributed electromechanical infrastructure assets. The combined business will be known as Pearce Services. MaxGen and WWS will continue to operate their respective brands at this time. 

New York-based New Mountain Capital is a leading growth-oriented investment firm with over $20 billion in assets under management. 

The Ropes & Gray team that advised New Mountain Capital was led by private equity partner Carl Marcellino (New York), and included tax partners Adam Greenwood (New York) and Amanda Holt (Boston), benefits partner Danna Kivell (New York), labor & employment partner Megan Bisk (Boston), IP Transactions Partner Regina Sam Penti (Boston) and private equity partner John Sorkin (New York).