Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising The Carlyle Group, as majority owner of Syniverse, in Syniverse’s partnership with Twilio (NYSE:TWLO), and Twilio’s agreement to invest up to $750 million cash in Syniverse and become a significant minority owner of the company. The Carlyle Group will maintain its majority interest in Syniverse. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Syniverse provides secure networking and connectivity solutions to mobile network operators and enterprises around the world. Twilio is a leading cloud communications platform.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Jonathan Levitsky and Christopher Anthony and includes counsel Philipp von Holst and Molly Stockley and associates Erik Andren, Fengjian Ao, Benjamin Collins-Wood, Christina Heil, Thomas Heiser and Ross Liemer, finance partner Jeffrey Ross and associate Wesley Moore, benefits partner Jonathan Lewis and associate Wendy Widman, tax partner Peter Furci and associate Robert Nelson-Sullivan, capital markets partner Matthew Kaplan, counsel Joshua Samit and associates Jason LeBlanc and Carly Hill, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz and associates Tigist Kassahun and Emily Mackay and antitrust partners Timothy McIver and Michael Schaper, counsel Kyra Bromley and associate Megan MacDonald.