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General Atlantic and Torchy’s Tacos Announce Strategic Partnership
- Client News
- April 18, 2017
Paul, Weiss is representing General Atlantic in its significant minority investment in Torchy’s Tacos, a fast-casual restaurant serving untraditional tacos. General Atlantic joins the five founding partners of the restaurant chain as a shareholder. Financial terms of the transaction, announced on April 18 and expected to close in the third quarter, were not disclosed.
The Paul, Weiss team included corporate partners Matthew Abbott, Ellen Ching, Dale Sarro and John Kennedy and counsel Pearl Yuan-Garg; tax partner Patrick Karsnitz; intellectual property partner Chuck Googe; real estate partner Peter Fisch; employee benefits partner Robert Fleder; environmental counsel William O’Brien; and antitrust counsel Marta Kelly.