Ropes & Gray has advised NielsenIQ (NIQ), a portfolio company of Advent International, on the sale of CPS GfK to YouGov.
The divestment of CPS GfK – which completed on 9 January – addresses competition concerns by the European Commission and was a condition for the combination of NIQ and GfK. Ropes & Gray also represented NIQ in relation to the combination of NIQ and GfK, which completed in July 2023 creating the world’s leading consumer intelligence company.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity transactions partner Victoria McGrath with counsel Laura Kayani, associates Ciara Stratford, Maddie Cubbon and Rouzana Kasem and trainee Katherine Fielding. Other members of the team included private equity transactions partner Christian Westra and associates Konrad Thallner, Garrett Roscoe and Joey Tsang, tax partner Andrew Howard and associate Ben Wonnacott and data, privacy & cybersecurity partner Rohan Massey and associate Chris Foo.
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