Latham & Watkins Advises Bowman Consulting Group in US$1 Billion Acquisition by Bernhard Capital Partners

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: BWMN), a national engineering services and program management firm, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Bernhard Capital Partners, an infrastructure and services-focused private equity firm. The all-cash, US$43.00 per share transaction represents an enterprise value of approximately US$1 billion.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Bowman in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York/Orange County partner Charles Ruck, New York partner Ian Nussbaum, and Washington, D.C. partner Joel Trotter, with associates Kyle Adams, Jordan Freisleben, Patrick O’Neal, and Max Siegel. Advice was provided on tax matters by Bay Area partner Katharine Moir, with associate Chris Zhao; on employee benefits matters by Washington, D.C. partner David Della Rocca, with associates Hayden Rutledge and Heather Jäger; on finance matters by New York partner Emily Johnson, with associate Young Joon Joo; on data privacy matters by Houston partner Robert Blamires, with associate Kathryn Parsons-Reponte; on US antitrust matters by New York partner Katherine Rocco, with associates Carla Palma, Samantha Sosa, and Ryan McGrath; on ex-US antitrust matters by Brussels partner Héctor Armengod; on foreign direct investment matters by Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto; on government contracts matters by Washington, D.C. partner Dean Baxtresser, with associate Jack Ring; on intellectual property matters by New York counsel Carrie Girgenti, with associate Laura Geraci; on real estate matters by New York partner Dara Denberg, with associates Michael Nieberg and Joseph Lee Robinson; on environmental matters by New York counsel David Langer, with associate Gina Kwon; and on public company representation matters by Washington, D.C. counsel Jonathan Drory, with associate Grace Tang.