General Atlantic Acquires Actis, Creating $97 Billion Diversified Global Investment Platform

Paul, Weiss advised General Atlantic in its acquisition of Actis, a leading investor in sustainable infrastructure, creating a diversified global investment platform with approximately $97 billion in combined assets under management. Under the deal Actis becomes the sustainable infrastructure arm within General Atlantic's global investment platform.

The Paul, Weiss team was led by corporate partners Matthew Abbott, Cullen Sinclair and Conrad van Loggerenberg, and included partners Maury Slevin, Aaron Schlaphoff, Suhan Shim, Judie Ng Shortell, Ravi Purohit and Erika Detjen, and counsel Libbie Walker, Arik Hirschfeld, Nathan Mitchell, Usman Arain, Michael Spirtos, Rachel Shepardson and Caitlin Kelly; tax partners Lindsay Parks, Reuven Garrett, Timothy Lowe and Cian O'Connor; executive compensation partners Lawrence Witdorchic and Jarrett Hoffman and counsel Jake Glazeski; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; antitrust partners Andrew Finch and Marta Kelly, and counsel Yuni Sobel, Chad de Souza and John Magruder; litigation partners John Carlin and Andrew Gordon; and environmental counsel William O'Brien.