Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised Odyssey Investment Partners (Odyssey) in the formationof Odyssey Investment Partners Fund VI, LP (“Fund VI”), a $3.25 billion private equity investment fund formed to pursue control-oriented investments and management buyouts of established middle-market companies. Fund VI was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap with significant upsizing by existing investors and by adding several new institutional investors. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Odyssey, with offices in New York and Los Angeles, is a leading private equity investment firm with a more than 20 year history of partnering with skilled managers to transform middle-market companies into more efficient and diversified businesses with strong growth profiles. Odyssey makes majority controlled investments in industries with a long-term positive outlook and favorable secular trends.

The Debevoise team was led by partners Rebecca Silberstein and Rafael Kariyev and associates Sally Bergmann and Lena Smith, and included associates Jennifer Cestaro, Matthew Daly-Grafstein, Douglas Hirn and Jonathan Miu.