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Stephen joined Ropes & Gray in 2024 and is an associate in the corporate department. Stephen focuses his practice on private equity buyouts, strategic M&A, divestitures and similar transactions. Stephen also regularly advises clients and their portfolio companies on a range of operational matters, including add-on acquisitions, dispositions, general corporate governance and equity arrangements.
Experience
- American Securities and its portfolio company Emerald Kalama Chemical, LLC in Emerald's $1.1 billion sale to LANXESS AG*
- Aterian Investment Partners in its sale of Stewart Tubular Products to Pelican Energy Partners*
- Blackstone in its acquisition of Sustana Group*
- BV Investment Partners in its sale of Risk International
- Cornell Capital in the acquisition by INW Manufacturing LLC of Capstone Nutrition*
- CPP Investments, together with Silver Lake, in their $12.5 billion take-private of Qualtrics*
- CVC Capital Partners in its acquisitions of Radwell International (and its acquisition of ESH)*
- Gauge Capital in its sale of CENTEGIX to Charlesbank Capital Partners
- General Atlantic in its acquisition of US Urology Partners, a provider of a comprehensive suite of practice management capabilities to its affiliated community-based urology practices
- GHK Capital Partners in its acquisition of ITS Logistics, Inc.*
- J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of a majority stake in iLendingDIRECT*
- J.C. Flowers, together with Bain Capital and others, in the $100 million acquisition of a minority stake in Insigneo Financial Group LLC*
- McNally Capital in its investment in Jewett Automation
- Partners Capital in the sale of a minority stake to General Atlantic
- PSG, as principal stockholder, together with Lumaverse, in the recapitalization of Lumaverse Technologies by L Squared Capital Partners*
- SEKO Logistics, a global end-to-end logistics partner with nearly 50 years of logistics expertise and 150 offices in more than 60 countries, in its 2024 comprehensive out of court recapitalization, which was supported across SEKO’s capital structure by its key stakeholders and included significant new money investment.
*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray