Firm News January 22, 2025
Troutman Pepper Locke Advises IMS Technology Services in Partnership With Gainline Capital Partners
WILMINGTON, Del. – Troutman Pepper Locke represented IMS Technology Services, LLC (IMS), a leading audiovisual event staging, systems integration, and managed services solutions provider, in an investment from Gainline Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on partnering with family and founder-owned businesses across the middle market. Read a press release about the investment.
IMS services corporate, association, government, and higher education clients nationwide and has built an award-winning reputation for innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction. The partnership with Gainline Capital Partners benefits IMS by providing the knowledge and resources needed to support its growth, enhance its offerings, expand its market footprint, and ensure long-term success while maintaining its commitment to company culture and customer satisfaction.
The Troutman Pepper Locke team advising IMS was led by Matt Greenberg, and Brandon Raphael, and included Howard Goldberg, Raffaele Cicala, Nick Dowdle, Celia Marcum, and Jack Taylor.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper Locke’s corporate attorneys regularly handle middle and lower 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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