On March 4, 2019 Kudu Investment Management, LLC announced its minority equity investment in Versus Capital Advisors, LLC. Seward & Kissel was pleased to represent Kudu in this investment management industry transaction. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Kudu is a New York-based provider of permanent capital solutions to the asset and wealth management industries. Colorado-based Versus Capital Advisors is a leading real assets investment manager with approximately $4 billion of assets under management.

Seward & Kissel LLP (www.sewkis.com) is a leading New York law firm, originally established in 1890, offering legal advice emphasizing business, financial and commercial law and related litigation. The firm’s Business Transactions Group handles middle-market M&A, private equity, venture capital and joint venture transactions involving a wide variety of industries. The firm is ranked as Highly Regarded for Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA and is recommended by The Legal 500 in the middle-market M&A category, stating that Seward & Kissel “advises on market-leading transactions within the industries where the firm has an international reputation, namely investment management and shipping” and “also handles complex middle-market deals in the media industry and international sell-side M&A.”

The company’s press release describing this transaction can be accessed here.

For more information about Seward & Kissel’s Business Transaction Group, contact one of the BTG partners below:

• Meir Grossman, 212-574-1242, grossman@sewkis.com
• Jim Abbott, 212-574-1226, abbott@sewkis.com
• Craig Sklar, 212-574-1386, sklar@sewkis.com
• Nick Katsanos, 212-574-1382, katsanos@sewkis.com
• Gerhard Anderson, 212-574-1687, anderson@sewkis.com