Ropes & Gray Represents Bain Capital in Acquisition of a Majority Stake in Classys
Ropes & Gray represented Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition, and related financing, of a majority stake in Classys Inc., the South Korea based manufacturer of medical aesthetics equipment. The multi-million US dollar transaction to acquire a controlling stake of Kosdaq-listed Classys was announced on January 27, 2022 and closed on March 31, 2022.
The cross-office and cross-practice Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity transactions partner Jaewoo Lee and included leveraged finance partner Jackie Kahng, life sciences regulatory & compliance partners Katherine Wang, Lincoln Tsang and Gregory Levine, tax partner Elaine Murphy, litigation & enforcement partners Geoff Atkins, antitrust partner Jonathan Klarfeld, asset management partner Isabel Dische, IP transactions counsel David Chen, litigation & enforcement counsel Tina Yu, antitrust counsel Deidre Johnson, associates Keun Shin, Ethan Kim, Serena Jeon, Alice Sun, Jessica DeLalio, Helen Ryan, Hannah Kerr-Peterson, Lindsey Jones, Elise Thomas, Viacheslav Iavorskyi, Zhen Zhang, John Culhane, and trainee solicitor William Radcliffe.