Ropes & Gray Advises ICG on Travel Chapter Investment
Ropes & Gray has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on its investment in Travel Chapter, one of the UK’s leading holiday rental platforms, supporting the sale of the company to its management team from private equity firm ECI Partners.
Travel Chapter is the leading platform for high-quality self-catering holiday rentals, offering a wide selection of c.8,000 high quality properties across the UK. It has a number of consumer brands including its flagship brand Holidaycottages.co.uk and specialist lifestyle and regional brands such as Canine Cottages and Cottages & Castles.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Helen Croke, with associates Ciara Stratford, George Taylor and Charlie Shephard and trainees Sienna Hewavidana and Ed Olsen. Other members of the team included finance partner Alex Robb and associate Hoey Lee, real estate partner Will Bryant and associates Harriet Banner and Nick Steynberg, tax partner Chris Agnoli and associate Charlie Voisey, privacy, data protection and cybersecurity partner Rohan Massey and associate Catherine Keeling, antitrust partner Ruchit Patel and associate Anna Pugh, asset management associate Lewis Hammond, litigation & enforcement counsel Paige Berges (all based in London) and associate Brad Rocheville (Boston).