Ropes & Gray Advises Providence Equity Partners in Sale of Vistage Worldwide
Ropes & Gray advised Providence Equity Partners in the sale of Vistage Worldwide to Gridiron Capital. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction was announced on June 8 in a press release.
Vistage Worldwide, headquartered in San Diego, is the world's largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. Providence Equity Partners is a specialist private equity investment firm which has invested over $31 billion across more than 170 portfolio companies since its founding in 1989.
The Ropes & Gray team that advised Providence Equity Partners was led by private equity partner Adam Leamon, and included leveraged finance partner Arek Maczka, tax partner Amanda Holt, senior private equity attorney Erin Daley, benefits partners Renata Ferrari and Megan Bisk, IP transactions partner Violetta Kokolus, and private equity associate Brandon Winer.