Our Private Equity Group is considered the go-to practice for complex, bespoke and firm-defining transactions. With clients ranging from the world’s leading institutional asset managers to prominent middle-market private equity and growth equity firms, we offer comprehensive advice to general partners, limited partners, co-investors and other equity stakeholders, as well as portfolio companies, lenders and financial sponsor groups. The depth and continuity of our relationships across the industry gives us a nuanced understanding of each client’s objectives and allows us to provide seamless, efficient counsel across the investment lifecycle.
General Atlantic Invests in Accounting Firm Frazier & Deeter
- Client News
- April 4, 2025
Paul, Weiss is advising General Atlantic on its strategic growth investment in Frazier & Deeter, a globally recognized accounting and business advisory firm. The investment also included the participation of PSP Capital Partners and Aksia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Following the close of the transaction, Frazier & Deeter will operate in an alternative practice structure. Frazier & Deeter, LLC, a licensed, global CPA firm, will provide attestation services, and Frazier & Deeter Advisory, LLC, will provide business advisory, tax and other non-attestation services. Both entities will be separately owned and governed but will operate under the Frazier & Deeter brand name.
The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Cullen Sinclair, Matthew Abbott and Matthew Benedetto, and includes partners Suhan Shim, Will Aitken-Davies and Aaron Schlaphoff, and counsel Hein Visser, Judy Kim, Nathan Mitchell, Arik Hirschfeld and Caitlin Kelly; tax partners Reuven Garrett, Cian O’Connor and Lindsay Parks, and counsel Caroline Inker and Adam Parry; intellectual property partner Jonathan Ashtor; antitrust partners Ross Ferguson, Annie Herdman and Marta Kelly, and counsel Chad de Souza; litigation partners Jessica Carey and David Friedman, and counsel Marques Tracy, Audrey Paquet and Pietro Signoracci; executive compensation partner Lawrence Witdorchic and counsel Bruce Goldberger; and environmental counsel William O'Brien.