Khaitan & Co and Mayer Brown advised on SGS Group’s acquisition of Prescient businesses.
SGS Group acquired 100% of the share capital of Prescient Cyber Audit & Assurance. Simultaneously, SGS Group completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Prescient Security in the United States. The transaction involved SGS North America Inc., a subsidiary of SGS S.A., the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company.
Khaitan & Co advised SGS Group on its acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Prescient Cyber Audit & Assurance and, in parallel, its acquisition of a majority stake in Prescient Security in the United States.
The deal team comprised Rabindra Jhunjhunwala, Kevin Shah, Niyanta Munyal and Pratyusha Dasgupta, with support from Deepak Kumar on employment law matters and Harsh Walia and Shobhit Chandra on data privacy matters.
Mayer Brown advised Prescient Security Group and its founders in connection with the sale of a majority stake in Prescient Security to SGS North America Inc., a subsidiary of SGS S.A.
The Mayer Brown team advising Prescient was led by Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions partner Jonathan Dhanawade and included: Corporate & Securities partners Gwenaëlle de Kerviler and Olivier Tordjman, and associates Don Irwin, Jacolby Roemer, Danielle Taylor, Alexandre Gaspar, and Thibault Martins Ribeiro; Employment & Benefits partner Stephanie Vasconcellos and associate Tishyra Randell; Employment Litigation & Counseling counsel Kim Leffert and associate Amber Masha; Tax partners Jason Bazar and Michelle Jewett, and associate Stephanie Wood; Litigation & Dispute Resolution partners William Stallings, Jean-Maxime Blutel, Frank Favia, and Ken Wainstein, and associates Ravi Shah and Marie Filippi; Cybersecurity & Data Privacy partner Arsen Kourinian and associate Joshua Cohen; IP partner Richard Assmus; International Trade partners Mickey Leibner, Aiysha Hussain, Sydney Mintzer, and Tamer Soliman, counsel Gretel Echarte Morales, and associates Nicholas Jackson, Anjani Nadadur, Jennifer Parry, and Shelby Colson; Real Estate partner David Saye and associate Ryan Lifland; and Government Contracts partner John Prairie. The team is based in the firm’s Charlotte, Chicago, New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Salt Lake City, and Washington DC offices.
