Dechert Advises Court Square in Sale of AHEAD

Dechert is advising Court Square Capital Partners and AHEAD in Centerbridge’s Acquisition of AHEAD from Court Square. Over the last five years, as a portfolio company of Court Square, AHEAD grew revenues from $365 million to more than $1.3 billion in 2020, in the process acquiring four firms. During this same period, AHEAD’s professional services business grew from $18 million to more than $100 million—an average annual growth rate of 41 percent—as the company expanded its services capabilities in areas of cloud, enterprise service management, and enterprise monitoring and analytics.

Court Square is a middle market private equity firm with one of the most experienced investment teams in the industry. Since 1979, the team has completed over 230 investments, including several landmark transactions, and has developed numerous businesses into leaders in their respective markets. Court Square invests in companies that have compelling growth potential within the business services, general industrial, healthcare, and technology and telecommunications sectors. The firm has $7.0 billion of assets under management and is based in New York, N.Y.

The Dechert team includes corporate partners Ken Young and Bernardo Piereck; associates Allie Misner, Avryl Klich, Nicole Holden, Colleen Mallick, Chris Polisano and John Stanley; and special counsel Francois Quintard-Morenas. Finance aspects are handled by partner Sarah Gelb, and associates Emily Lozada  and Jeremy Buday; employee benefits aspects are handled by partner Eric Rubin and associate Lany Villalobos; IP aspects are handled by partner Thomas Rayski and associate Noah Shier; labor aspects are handled by counsel Jeffrey Rubin; environmental aspects are handled by Abbi Cohen; tax aspects are handled by partner Edward Lemanowicz and associate George Davis; litigation aspects are handled by partners Neil Steiner and Darshak Dholakia, and associates Hrishikesh Hari and Melanie MacKay; and antitrust aspects are handled by partner James Fishkin, counsel Beverly Ang, and associates Samuel Stelk and Michael Okkonen. 

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