RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners to Acquire Vida
Fried Frank acted as counsel to co-investors RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners in connection with their proposed acquisition of Vida Capital, Inc. (Vida). Vida is a Texas-based alternative asset management firm with over US$4 billion of assets under management specializing in insurance-linked strategies with a predominant focus on longevity-contingent risk.
The Fried Frank team was led by corporate partner Mark H. Lucas and included corporate partners Gregg Beechey, Jeremy R. Berry, Gerald H. Brown Jr., Jessica Forbes, Michael T. Gershberg, J. Christian Nahr, Robert C. Schwenkel, and Stacey Song; antitrust and competition partners Nathaniel L. Asker and Tobias Caspary; intellectual property and technology partner Amir R. Ghavi; litigation partners Una A. Dean and Steven M. Witzel; tax partner Alan S. Kaden; corporate senior counsel John M. Liftin; corporate special counsel Bret T. Chrisope, Martin A. Hewitt, and Adam J. Ross; antitrust and competition special counsel Aleksandr B. Livshits; corporate associates Blair B. Burnett, Amelia J. Gordon, Danielle Ledford, Ashlee S. Newman, Christina Robinson, Joanna D. Rosenberg, Jake Saifman, Renuka Santhanagopalan, Justin A. Schenck, Charles B. Tanenbaum, and Kristopher Yingling; antitrust and competition associates John Todd Garcia Jr. and Kay Jebelli; environmental associate Mary Beth Phipps; intellectual property and technology associate Marli Sussman; litigation associates Melis Kiziltay Carter and Michael A. Kleinman; tax associates Shane C. Hoffmann and Karen Li.