White & Case advises Providence Equity Partners on sale of Superstruct Entertainment | White & Case LLP

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Providence Equity Partners (Providence) on its sale of Superstruct Entertainment (Superstruct) to leading global investment firm KKR.

“We have advised on this landmark transaction for Providence, which underscores the strength and growth of Superstruct as a premier live entertainment group” said White & Case partner Richard Jones, who led the Firm’s deal team. “This deal highlights our M&A capabilities and our ability to execute high-profile private equity transactions.”

Superstruct is a European live entertainment group, owning and operating over 80 music festivals across ten countries in Europe and Australia. Since its establishment in 2017 by Providence, Superstruct has grown organically and through acquisitions into one of the world’s premier live entertainment groups. Today, the company has a well-diversified portfolio across music genres and geographies. The portfolio includes some of Europe’s most popular and high-quality festivals, such as Wacken Open Air, Defqon.1, Parookaville, Sziget, Tinderbox, Boardmasters and Sónar.

Providence Equity Partners is a specialist private equity investment firm focused on growth-oriented media, communications, education and technology companies across North America and Europe. Providence combines its partnership approach to investing with deep industry expertise to help management teams build exceptional businesses and generate attractive returns. Since its founding in 1989, Providence has invested over $36 billion across more than 175 private equity portfolio companies.

The White & Case team was led by partner Richard Jones and counsel Joshua Alexander-Passe (both London) and included partners Will Smith, Colin Harley (both London), Strati Sakellariou-Witt, Carlo Meert (both Brussels), Orion Berg (Paris) and Carlos Daroca (Madrid), local partner Ana Calvo (Madrid) and associates James Charteris-Black, Zack Trumper, Nicolle Odutoye (all London), Tommaso Poli, Nick Hallemeesch (Brussels) and Louis Roussier (Paris).

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