Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised CRC Group, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of ARC Excess & Surplus, LLC. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

CRC Group is one of North America’s largest independent wholesale specialty insurance distributors. ARC Excess & Surplus, LLC, is a specialty insurance wholesale broker.

The Debevoise team was led by M&A partner Spencer Gilbert and counsel Benjamin Collins-Wood and included associates Missy Aja, Katrina Kaczynski, Rekha Korlipara, Tanaya Sanyal and Lyla Sax, insurance M&A counsel Robert Fettman and Keith Slattery and associate Clay Cosby, finance partner Ryan Rafferty and associate Jonathon Yeung, employment benefits and executive compensation partner Frank Mitchell, counsel Wendy Widman and associate Rebeka Cohan, tax partner Michael Bolotin, counsel Samuel Krawiecz and associate Harshil Mehta, IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz, associate Melody Godbolt and law clerk Alice Sidai Zheng, antitrust partner Ted Hassi and counsel Kyra Bromley, litigation counsel Erich Grosz and associate Chaim Lapp, and national security partner Rick Sofield and associate John Satira.