Sidley Represents Siris Capital in Its Acquisition of BearCom

Sidley is representing Siris Capital Group in its acquisition of BearCom, a North American solutions provider of wireless communications and security technologies, from middle-market private equity firm Bertram Capital. Siris Capital is a private equity firm that invests primarily in mature technology and telecommunications companies with mission-critical products and services, and its investment in BearCom will help grow its video and security technologies and its private data networks offerings to customers.

The Sidley team is being led by Vijay S. Sekhon, Ayo K. Badejo, and Dan Clivner (Private Equity) and includes Nikita Ponomarev, David A. Azcarraga, Alisha J. Tupchong, LinLin Teng, Daniel E. Gessner, Salim Jones, Jake W Madsen, and Tom Qiu (M&A and Private Equity); Ken Daly, James W. Lowe, Jamie M. Sadler, and Toni Pitesa (Antitrust and Competition); Ernesto R. Claeyssen (Commercial Litigation and Disputes); Christian E. Pilhofer, Eric S. Wolf, Elizabeth T. Burns, and Ryan B. McLeod (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Maureen M. Crough (Environmental); Sven De Knop, Jen Fernandez, James Mendenhall, and Alessandra Moroni (Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy); Nicholas M. Schwartz, Julie Ann Rosenberg Lamm, Scott Dawson, Chloe Kim, and Kendra Smith (Global Finance); Scott J.F. Goldstein (Insurance); Daniel F. Spies (Investment Funds); Peter McCorkell, Eric G. Hoffman, and Alex Down (Labor and Employment); Ash Nagdev (Privacy and Cybersecurity); Keith Hayden Del Prete, Jonathan H. Koh, and Jared R. Feldman (Real Estate); Christian Brause, Jörg Fischer, Eric M. Grosshandler, Alvin Wang, and Corinna Linhardt (Tax); Stephen M. Fronk, Dusan Clark, and Daphne Chen (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); Marc A. Korman and Morgan Bennett Lindsay (Transportation); and Michael D. Mann (White Collar: Government Litigation and Investigations).