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Jerry joined Ropes & Gray in 2024 as an associate in the firm’s private equity transactions group. Jerry’s practice focuses on representing private equity and strategic clients in a wide range of transactional matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, divestitures, minority investments and advising sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with their equity investments and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Jerry was an M&A associate in the New York office of another premier U.S. law firm.
Experience
- Represented Bridgepoint in the sale of DMC Power, a designer and manufacturer of proprietary connector technology systems for high voltage power infrastructure, to Golden Gate Capital.*
- Represented Tailwind Capital in its acquisition of a national provider of trench shoring and trench safety solutions.*
- Represented Ankura Consulting Group, a global expert services and advisory firm, in the following transactions:*
- its acquisition of Lumeri, a strategic business consulting firm specializing in strategy and transformation solutions for Fortune 500 companies.*
- its acquisition of Chartwell Compliance, a regulatory compliance and risk management firm.*
- its acquisition of McLarty Associates, a global diplomacy and strategy firm.*
- its acquisition of Noragh Analytics, a service provider in advanced data analytics and the enabling of AI to actionable use of complex data.*
- Represented a Big Four consulting firm in its acquisition of a Salesforce MuleSoft enterprise integration service provider.*
- Represented a multinational financial services firm in its acquisition of a cloud-native payments technology company.*
- Represented a vertically integrated bitcoin financial services and infrastructure firm in the following transactions:*
- its acquisition of a bitcoin payments platform powered by the Lightning Network.*
- its growth equity funding round of $1 billion that values the company at more than $7 billion.*
- Represented Rialto Capital in connection with a newly formed joint venture with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Funds managed by Rialto Capital, together with funds managed by Blackstone, acquired a 20% equity stake in the venture, which holds a $16.8 billion senior mortgage loan portfolio retained in receivership following the failure of Signature Bank.*
- Represented Bristol Myers Squibb in its acquisition of Forbius, a clinical-stage protein engineering company that develops biotherapeutics to treat fibrosis and cancer.*
- Represented BRP Group in its acquisition of Burnham Benefits Insurance Services, an employee benefits consulting and brokerage firm, and Burnham Gibson Wealth Advisors, an independent registered investment adviser.*
- Represented FirstGroup plc in its sale of Greyhound Lines, a nationwide operator of intercity coach services, to an affiliate of FlixMobility.*
- Represented Loews Corporation in its sale of a 47% interest in Altium Packaging, a customer-centric packaging solutions provider and manufacturer to GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, valuing the company at $2 billion.*
- Represented Ocado Group plc in its acquisition of Haddington Dynamics, a robotics-arm designer and manufacturer.*
*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray