Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised Providence Equity Partners in its minority investment of up to $500 million in the formation of The North Road Company, a global, multi-genre studio. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Providence is a specialist private equity investment firm focused on growth-oriented media, communications, education, and technology companies across North America and Europe. The North Road Company is a global, multi-genre studio that produces scripted, documentary, and non-scripted film and TV content across the United States and international markets.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Michael Diz and Sue Meng and includes associates Erik Andren, Xiuna Lin, John Love and James Malmo, tax partner Erin Cleary and associate Jay Evans, executive compensation and benefits partner Franklin Mitchell and associate Spencer Robbins, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz, counsel Caroline Geiger and associates Tigist Kassahun and Louis Sanchez, capital markets partner Morgan Hayes and associate Austin Poon and finance partner Scott Selinger.