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, finance partner Scott Rolnik, employment partner Stephanie Bruce, executive compensation & employee benefits partner Pascal Mayer, intellectual property transactions partner Jordan Altman, and private equity counsel Andrea Bidegaray Stephen.