Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a majority stake in the industrial businesses of Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in a transaction resulting in approximately $2.6 billion of upfront cash proceeds to Roper. For more information, please read the company’s press release. 

Roper operates market leading businesses that design and develop vertical software and application-specific products for a variety of defensible niche markets.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Uri Herzberg, Kevin Rinker and Kevin Schmidt and includes counsel Kim Le, associates Martha Brown, Hannah Levine, John Love, Khaair Morrison, Katrina Mari Kaczynski, and Matthew Ryan, insurance M&A counsel Keith Slattery, finance partners Jeffrey Ross and Ramya Tiller, counsel Margaret O’Neill, associates Brett Novick, Alena Thomas and Charlotte Walkovik and law clerks Timothy Shin and Adam Silverwood, benefits partner J. Michael Snypes and law clerk Christopher Johnson, tax partners Erin Cleary, Peter Furci and Richard Ward, associates Adam Namm and Lena Smith and law clerk John Nelson, trade compliance counsel Robert Dura and  associates Tzerina Dizon and Isabel Espinosa de los Reyes, capital markets partner Steven Slutzky and associate Ashley Yoon, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz and associates Tigist Kassahun, Jarrett Lewis and Paisley Piasecki, antitrust partner Timothy McIver and associates Kayleigh Anderson and Anne-Mette Heemsoth, regulatory partner Andrew Levine, investment management partners Jonathan Adler and Jason Auerbach, environmental counsel Stuart Hammer and associate Harry Zirlin, restructuring counsel Elie Worenklein, and litigation partner Mark Goodman, counsel Erich Grosz and associate Fanny Gauthier.