PROVIDENCE – A multi-disciplinary team of Troutman Pepper Locke attorneys represented Microporous, a leading manufacturer of advanced battery separators and a portfolio company of Trent Capital Partners, in securing financing for its manufacturing facility in Danville, Virginia. For more information, see the press release.
The Danville facility will produce battery separators for lithium-ion batteries and, at full capacity, is expected to support approximately 65 gigawatt-hours of battery production annually. The investment marks a critical step in expanding Microporous’ ability to serve the rapidly growing demand for energy storage solutions across automotive, industrial, and grid applications.
The Troutman Pepper Locke team that advised Microporous included Mike Serra, Christine McCay, Kyle Kohler, Brandon Curtin, Adam Millard, Joe Wenzel, Peter Wynacht, Hilary Cairnie, Bonnie Gill, Yash Shah, Alejandra Aponte, Harris Ahmad, Ted Edwards, Jeff Jefferson, and Richard Small. Counsel for this unique transaction drew on the firm’s capabilities across equity and debt financing, real estate, infrastructure project financing, government contracting, among others.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier practice, Troutman Pepper Locke’s Private Equity and Investment Funds Group regularly handles 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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