Ropes & Gray Represents GHO Capital Partners in its Investment in Biocare Medical

Ropes & Gray represented Global Healthcare Opportunities, or GHO Capital Partners LLP, in its investment in Biocare Medical. Existing investor Excellere Partners, a US-based private equity firm, will remain a significant partner in Biocare Medical alongside GHO. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. The transaction was announced on Dec. 9 in a press release. 

GHO Capital is a leading specialist healthcare investment advisor based in London. Biocare Medical is a leading developer of world-class immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization reagents for cancer diagnosis and chromosomal profiling. 

The team that advised GHO Capital Partners included private equity partners Timothy Castelli and Neill Jakobe (both of Chicago), private equity associate Raxit Shah (Chicago), tax counsel Michael Mendelevich (Boston), tax partner Elaine B. Murphy (Boston), leveraged finance partners Greg Bauer (Chicago) and Alexander Zeltser (New York), life sciences regulatory & compliance partner Albert Cacozza (Washington, D.C.), and labor, employment & benefits partner Jennifer Cormier (Boston), health care partner Christina Bergeron (Boston), antitrust partner Ruchit Patel (London), antitrust counsel Deidre Johnson (Boston), commercial & securities litigation partner Timothy Farrell (Chicago), and mergers & acquisitions counsel Thomas Burke (New York).