Troutman Pepper Advises Five Arrows in Acquisition of Top Emergency Preparedness, Response Software Company
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper recently counseled Five Arrows, the private equity arm of Rothschild & Co, in purchasing Juvare from Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. Read a company press release about the transaction here.
Juvare is a worldwide leader in emergency preparedness and critical incident management and response software. In recent years, Juvare’s solutions have been used to prepare for and respond to major emergencies including hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, and Dorian; the California wildfires; active shooter incidents; major planned events such as Super Bowls; as well as global health crises including Covid-19, among many others.
A team of Troutman Pepper attorneys – led by James Epstein and including corporate partners Jeremy Levy and Joseph Kadlec, and, among others, corporate associates Michael Campbell, Peter McDaniels, Yueyang Zhang and Kenneth Minturn, as well as specialists Howard Goldberg (Tax), Nida Javaid (Employee Benefits), Hilary Cairnie (Government Contracts), David Wormser (Intellectual Property) and Barbara Sicalides (Antitrust) – served as legal counsel to Five Arrows in the transaction. Raymond James served as financial advisor to Five Arrows.
In total, 30 Troutman Pepper professionals, including those from both the legacy Pepper Hamilton and legacy Troutman Sanders firms, came together remotely and performed all legal work in an accelerated time frame, including the legal diligence and drafting and negotiating of all transaction documents. This is the 10th transaction in which the firm has represented the U.S. Five Arrows team.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier practice, Troutman Pepper’s Private Equity Group, which is part of its overall Corporate Practice Group, focuses on middle market sponsors and their portfolio companies. The group regularly handles platform and add-on acquisitions and dispositions in a variety of industry verticals – from $50 million to more than $1 billion in TEV. In addition to representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys represent both public and private entities, ranging from industry-leading, Fortune 100 corporations to emerging growth companies.
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