Dechert advised Seawall Capital and its portfolio company Kent Outdoors (f/k/a Kent Watersports), on the equity and debt financing of the acquisitions of BOTE and Kona Bicycles, both pioneering brands in their respective categories.
Seawall Capital is a middle-market private equity firm focused on making investments in companies with strong connections to their end consumers. Kent Outdoors is a diverse platform of action sports brands with a broad product set spanning personal flotation devices, wakeboards, water skis, towable tubes, snowboards and more.
Dechert also advised Seawall Capital on the acquisition of Kent Watersports Holdings and its related entities in December 2020.
The Dechert team that advised on the deals include corporate partner Naz Zilkha and associates Nicholas Chionchio and Juan Bautista Zambon; finance partner Lindsay Flora and associates Leila Malek, Daniel Chesler and Eve Wright; and real estate special counsel Francois Quintard-Morenas and associate Devyn Kurpis.
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