Dechert Advises MiddleGround Capital in its Acquisition of Dura Automotive Systems

Dechert is advising MiddleGround Capital in its acquisition of a majority ownership in Dura Automotive Systems from Bardin Hill Investment Partners. Dura is a global automotive supplier specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of solutions that drive the evolution of mobility.

MiddleGround Capital is a private equity firm that makes control equity investments in lower middle market North American companies in the B2B industrial and specialty distribution sectors. It is currently investing out of its first fund. 

The Dechert team advising MiddleGround Capital includes private funds partner Omoz Osayimwese and associates Matthew Keehn and Neema Nassiri; corporate partners Stephen Pratt, Giovanni Russo, Ermine Bolot and Ross Allardice, special counsel John Ix and associates Ross MacConnell, Paul Bennett, Dorothy Hill, Christopher Rodrigues, Christian Böhme, Aude Steinberg, Tony Brown, Sonja Feser, Florian Leitsbach and Julia Keller; tax partners Steven Clemens and Daniel Hawthorne and associate Elizabeth Guidi; antitrust partners James Fishkin and Clemens Graf York von Wartenburg, counsel Beverly Ang and associate Michael Okkonen; environmental partner Abbi Cohen; real estate special counsel Francois Quintard-Morenas; intellectual property partner Thomas Rayski and associate Alex Tagawa; labor counsel Ian Downes and national partner Thibault Meiers; employee benefits partner Howard Klein and associates Sarah Burke, Michael Binko and Maëlle Chausse; financial restructuring associates Alaina Heine and Eric Hilmo; and international trade partner Darshak Dholakia.

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