On May 18, 2022, private equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners (“GCP”) announced the launch of Sigma7, a risk services company founded to support large organizations facing today’s dynamic environment of complex risks. Three initial acquisitions by Sigma7 have been closed: Strategia Worldwide, focused on risk strategy, Paragon, a market leader in risk engineering services, and RWH Myers, forensic accounting and loss recovery experts. Seward & Kissel was pleased to represent GCP and Sigma7 in connection with these middle market private equity transactions.

GCP is a middle market growth equity firm focused on information, marketing and tech-enabled services businesses. Sigma7 helps complex businesses contextualize and manage risk, integrating risk preparation and response with business strategy, creating resilience and ultimately, competitive advantage.

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 has considerable expertise in M&A;…The team regularly acts for private equity firms, international businesses and financial services companies in a huge variety of domestic and cross-border corporate and financing transactions.”

The company’s press release describing this transaction is available here.