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Latham & Watkins Advises Carlyle in Investment in Quantum Leap

September 11, 2025
Multidisciplinary team advised the global investment firm in transaction with high-growth national security company. 

Quantum Leap (the Company) announced the completion of an investment from funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG). As part of the transaction, Jim Miller, Quantum Leap Founder and CEO, Razor’s Edge, and other existing shareholders have reinvested alongside Carlyle. Quantum Leap is an innovative provider of cybersecurity and intelligence solutions for US government customers, helping to solve some of the most complex national security challenges.

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Carlyle in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by Chicago partner Shaun Hartley and Washington, D.C. partner Elizabeth More. Advice was provided on tax matters by New York partner David Raab; on benefits and compensation matters by Washington, D.C. partner David Della Rocca; on government contracts matters by Washington, D.C. partner Kyle Jefcoat; and on debt finance matters by Washington, D.C. partners Jeffrey Chenard, Katherine Putnam, and Manu Gayatrinath.

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