Ropes & Gray Advises GI Partners in School Bus Safety Investment

Ropes & Gray represented GI Partners in its significant growth investment in BusPatrol, the largest school bus safety technology provider. The transaction was announced in a Jan. 9 press release.

BusPatrol provides school districts, law enforcement agencies and municipalities with best-in-class technology to enforce pass violations, including a fully turnkey platform for capturing and processing violations, cloud-connected internal cameras and telematics data.

GI Partners is a private investment firm with over 150 employees and offices in San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Chicago, Greenwich, Scottsdale, and London. The firm has raised more than $42 billion in capital and invests on behalf of leading institutional investors around the world through its private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure strategies.

The team was led by private equity partners Brandon Howald and Kate Withers and included business restructuring partner Chris Dickerson, tax partner Benjamin Rogers, executive compensation & employee benefits partner Kyle Higley, litigation & enforcement partners Maria Calvet and Dan McCaughey, private equity partner Howard Glazer, employment partner Stephanie Bruce, capital markets partner Brad Flint, private equity counsel Janet Coscino, and private equity associate Leah Sibbio Blue.