Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised private equity firm EQT Mid Market in its acquisition, in partnership with management, of technology solutions and services provider FocusVision, as detailed in the press release issued by EQT. Milbank’s deal team was led by New York-based Corporate partners Brien Wassner and Bob Kennedy.
EQT is a leading global private equity group with approximately EUR 29 billion in raised capital. EQT has portfolio companies in Europe, Asia and the US with total sales of more than EUR 17 billion and approximately 140,000 employees. EQT works with portfolio companies to achieve sustainable growth, operational excellence and market leadership.
FocusVision is the leading global provider of quantitative and qualitative technology solutions to the market research industry, providing an online survey platform, research facility video streaming, webcam focus groups, ethnography streaming, mobile device usability studies, content management and end-to-end project management solutions. FocusVision’s services allow research professionals to engage with respondents in any place, at any time, on any device. FocusVision has more than 300 employees and offices in the US, the UK, Bulgaria, Brazil, Australia and Singapore.
The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Milbank team advising EQT, in addition to Messrs. Wassner and Kennedy, included Leveraged Finance partner Marcus Dougherty, Benefits and Compensation partner Mike Shah, Corporate partner Nicholas Smith, Antitrust partner Fiona Schaeffer, Tax special counsel Max Goodman, Corporate associates Dean Sattler, Suni Sreepada and Daniel Tyrrell, Leveraged Finance associates Benjamin Sayagh and George Zhang, Benefits and Compensation associate James Beebe and Intellectual Property associate Nathaniel Browand.
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