Achievement October 23, 2025

Troutman Pepper Locke Advises Vance Brothers, a Division of The Sterling Group Portfolio Company Pavement Preservation Group, in Acquisition of Circle C Paving

HOUSTON – Troutman Pepper Locke advised Vance Brothers LLC (Vance), a division of Pavement Preservation Group Inc. (PPG), in its acquisition of Circle C Paving and Construction LLC and Circle C Transport LLC (collectively, Circle C). The operating divisions of PPG, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group, provide pavement preservation products and services to customers across the country to help extend the life of urban and rural asphalt roads via best-in-class local execution capabilities. For more information, see the press release.

Headquartered in Goddard, KS, Circle C is a leading regional provider of pavement preservation services, primarily chip and scrub sealing, to public, commercial, and residential customers in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Circle C and Vance will operate as an integrated business going forward, continuing to provide best-in-class pavement preservation services to its customers. 

The Troutman Pepper Locke team that advised Vance was led by Brian Rose and included Sara Longtain, Ed Razim, Buddy Sanders, Ashley Lopez, Nicole Davies, Grace Elliott, Cesar Escalante, and Nik Holtan.

Consistently recognized as a top-tier practice, Troutman Pepper Locke’s corporate attorneys regularly handle middle market transactions for private equity clients alongside strategic deals for Fortune 100 corporations. Core areas of service include mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, capital markets transactions, and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, as well as general corporate counseling. The firm has a strong focus in the private equity and private fund services space, advising clients on matters including fund formation, growth equity investments, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and exit transactions.

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