Mayer Brown advises Prescient Security on the sale of a majority stake to SGS.

Mayer Brown advised Prescient Security Group and its founders in connection with the sale of a majority stake in Prescient Security to SGS North America Inc., a subsidiary of SGS S.A., the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company.

The Mayer Brown team advising Prescient was led by Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions partner Jonathan Dhanawade and included: Corporate & Securities – partners Gwenaëlle de Kerviler and Olivier Tordjman, and associates Don Irwin, Jacolby Roemer, Danielle Taylor, Alexandre Gaspar, and Thibault Martins Ribeiro; Employment & Benefits – partner Stephanie Vasconcellos and associate Tishyra Randell; Employment Litigation & Counseling – counsel Kim Leffert and associate Amber Masha; Tax – partners Jason Bazar and Michelle Jewett, and associate Stephanie Wood; Litigation & Dispute Resolution – partners William Stallings, Jean-Maxime Blutel, Frank Favia, and Ken Wainstein, and associates Ravi Shah and Marie Filippi; Cybersecurity & Data Privacy – partner Arsen Kourinian and associate Joshua Cohen; IP – partner Richard Assmus; International Trade – partners Mickey Leibner, Aiysha Hussain, Sydney Mintzer, and Tamer Soliman, counsel Gretel Echarte Morales, and associates Nicholas Jackson, Anjani Nadadur, Jennifer Parry, and Shelby Colson; Real Estate – partner David Saye and associate Ryan Lifland; and Government Contracts – partner John Prairie. The team is based in the firm’s Charlotte, Chicago, New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Salt Lake City, and Washington DC offices.