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General Atlantic Takes Minority Stake in Barteca
- Client News
- December 16, 2015
Barteca Holdings, the parent company of Barcelona Wine Bar and Bartaco, announced a minority investment from Paul, Weiss client General Atlantic, a leading growth equity firm. As part of the transaction, Andrew Crawford and Shaw Joseph, both senior leaders on General Atlantic's Global Retail & Consumer sector team, will join Barteca's board of directors. Barteca's founders and existing investor Rosser Capital Partners will collectively remain majority shareholders in the company.
The Paul, Weiss team included corporate partners Neil Goldman, Matthew Abbott and Dale Sarro and counsel Menachem Kaplan; tax partners Patrick Karsnitz and Richard Bronstein; real estate partner Peter Fisch; employee benefits counsel Reuven Falik; and practice management counsel Eric Stoller.