Ropes & Gray Represents Kohlberg & Company in Agreement to Acquire Riveron

Ropes & Gray advised private equity firm Kohlberg & Company in its definitive agreement to acquire Riveron, a national business advisory firm, from H.I.G. Capital. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction was announced June 9 in a press release.

Headquartered in Dallas, Riveron is a national business advisory firm with over 700 employees across 12 offices in the U.S. providing functional expertise across accounting, ESG, finance, M&A, operations, restructuring & turnaround, strategic communications, tax, and technology. Kohlberg is a leading private equity firm with 36-years of experience organizing eleven private equity vehicles, through which it has raised over $14 billion of committed equity capital and generated over $10 billon in realized returns.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Garrett Charon and senior associate Doug Giannantonio, tax partners Pamela Glazier and Aaron Harsh, employment partner Stephanie Bruce, executive compensation & employee benefits partner Pascal Mayer, intellectual property transactions partner Jordan Altman, and private equity counsel Andrea Bidegaray Stephen.