General Atlantic Reinvests in Squarespace in Go-Private Deal With Permira

Paul, Weiss advised General Atlantic in its reinvestment in portfolio company Squarespace, Inc., a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, as part of Squarespace’s all-cash go-private deal with private equity firm Permira, valued at $7.2 billion. Financial terms of General Atlantic’s participation in the transaction were not disclosed.

The Paul, Weiss team was led by corporate partners Matthew Abbott and Ellen Ching, and included, among others, partners Christopher Cummings and Suhan Shim and counsel David Epstein, Jason Tyler, Caitlin Kelly and Arik Hirschfeld; tax partners Lindsay Parks and Reuven Garrett; executive compensation counsel Lisa Krausz Eisenberg; litigation partner Andrew Gordon; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; and real estate partner Peter Fisch.