For the fourth time in less than two years, Ropes & Gray won the lead role advising Green Mountain Coffee Roasters on a large acquisition of a competitor–today’s $890 million deal to buy the Montreal-based gourmet coffee roaster Van Houtte from the private equity firm Littlejohn, according to Reuters and lawyers who worked on the deal.
Last year, Green Mountain announced plans to expand by acquiring smaller coffee makers to whom Green Mountain has historically licensed its popular single-serving K-cup technology, according to Reuters and our prior reporting. That initiative led Green Mountain to acquire the California company Diedrich Coffee for $290 million after a contentious bidding war late last year as well as smaller acquisitions of Timothy’s World of Coffee and Tully’s Coffee Corporation, according to Reuters and our prior reporting.
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