Ropes & Gray Advises GI Partners in its Investment in Aras

Ropes & Gray advised GI Partners in its investment in Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications. The transaction was announced on April 19. The press release is here. 

Founded in 2001, GI Partners is a private investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm has raised over $26 billion in capital from leading institutional investors around the world to invest in private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure strategies. Aras provides a resilient platform for digital industrial applications. Audi, DENSO, GE, Honda, Kawasaki, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Nissan are investing in the platform.  

The Ropes & Gray team that represented GI Partners was led by private equity partner Howard Glazer (San Francisco), and included private equity partner Neill Jakobe (Chicago), employment, executive compensation & benefits partner Jennifer Cormier (Boston), tax partner Leo Arnaboldi III (New York), mergers & acquisitions partner Regina Sam Penti (Boston), litigation & enforcement partner Samer Musallam (Washington D.C.), debt finance partner Alexander Zeltser (Boston), and data, privacy & cybersecurity partner Edward McNicholas (Washington D.C.).