Latham & Watkins Advises Triton on Sale of Trench to GE Vernova

Latham & Watkins LLP has advised Triton Partners (Triton) on the sale of Trench Group, a global technology provider for high-voltage grid components and systems, to energy company GE Vernova for a US$9 billion equivalent purchase price.

The closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory conditions and is expected in late 2027.

Latham & Watkins previously advised Triton on its acquisition of Trench.

The Latham team was led by Munich corporate partner Rainer Traugott, with associates Jeremias Bura, Lara Stelmach, Jakob Baldes, Nils Horst, and Thomas Sandt. Advice was also provided on antitrust matters by Frankfurt partner Max Hauser, Brussels partners Philipp Studt and Carles Esteva Mosso, Washington, D.C. partners Jason Cruise and Lindsey Champlin, and New York partner Kyra Bromley, with counsels Nils Bremer and Yanyan Yang, and associates Konstantinos Beikos-Paschalis, Panos Kokkinidis, Eva Beyer Blumental, Jörn Christian Kramer, William Reed, and Nathaniel Amann; on tax matters by Munich partner Stefan Süss, with associate Johannes Lieb; on IP matters by Frankfurt partner Susan Kempe-Müller, with associate Karolin Borcherding; on employment matters by Munich partner Tobias Leder, with associate Julian Traub; on regulatory matters by Frankfurt partner Joachim Grittmann, with associate Maxim Glusdak; on banking and private credit matters by Frankfurt partner Alexandra Hagelüken, with associates Anna-Maria Kuckerz and Verena Birke; on real estate matters by counsel Sven Nickel and associate Sebastian von Hornung; on data law matters by counsel Wolf-Tassilo Böhm; and on compliance matters by counsel Stefan Bartz.