Ropes & Gray Represents CIVC Partners in its Investment in Young & Associates

In The News
August 2, 2021

Ropes & Gray represented CIVC Partners LP in its investment in Young & Associates in partnership with Ray & Linda Young and the existing Young management team. Terms of the transaction, which was announced on Aug. 2, were not disclosed. The press release is here.

Young, founded in 1997 by Ray and Linda Young, is a leading nationwide property damage consulting firm, providing damage assessments, cost estimating, forensic engineering and construction project management services. CIVC Partners is a Chicago-based middle market private equity firm focused on investments in business services sectors.

The Ropes & Gray team that CIVC was led by private equity partner Matthew Richards (Chicago) and included tax partner Aaron Harsh (Boston) and tax associate Brandon Dunn (Boston), litigation & enforcement counsel Steven Kaye (Boston), employment, executive compensation & employee benefits partners Matt Jones (Chicago) and Megan Bisk (Boston), finance partner Alexander Zeltser (New York) and finance associate Justin Gaudenzi (New York), and litigation & enforcement partner Nicholas Berg (Chicago).