Latham & Watkins Advises Bowman Consulting Group in Completed US$1 Billion Take-Private Acquisition by Bernhard Capital Partners

Bernhard Capital Partners (Bernhard) and Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (Bowman) announced the completion of Bernhard’s acquisition of Bowman in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$1 billion. With this closing, Bowman becomes a privately held company backed by Bernhard, beginning a new chapter of investment and growth for the national engineering services firm. Bowman’s common stock has ceased trading and will be delisted from Nasdaq.

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Bowman in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York/Orange County partner Charles Ruck, New York partner Ian Nussbaum, and Washington, D.C. partner Joel Trotter, with associates Kyle Adams, Jordan Freisleben, Patrick O’Neal, and Max Siegel. Advice was provided on tax matters by Bay Area partner Katharine Moir, with associate Chris Zhao; on employee benefits matters by Washington, D.C. partner David Della Rocca, with associates Hayden Rutledge and Heather Jäger; on finance matters by New York partner Emily Johnson, with associate Young Joon Joo; on data privacy matters by Houston partner Robert Blamires, with associate Kathryn Parsons-Reponte; on US antitrust matters by New York partner Katherine Rocco, with associates Carla Palma and Ryan McGrath; on ex-US antitrust matters by Brussels partner Héctor Armengod; on foreign direct investment matters by Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto; on government contracts matters by Washington, D.C. partner Dean Baxtresser, with associate Jack Ring; on intellectual property matters by New York counsel Carrie Girgenti, with associate Laura Geraci; on real estate matters by New York partner Dara Denberg, with associates Michael Nieberg and Joseph Lee Robinson; on environmental matters by New York counsel David Langer, with associate Gina Kwon; and on securities matters by Washington, D.C. partners Michele Anderson and William Hackett and Washington, D.C. counsel Jonathan Drory, with associates Grace Tang and Mary Tursi.