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April 14, 2025

Willkie represented CVC Capital Partners and The Quality Group, a European leader in performance nutrition, in its acquisitions of each of RAW Nutrition, a sport nutrition brand, and BUM Energy, a maker of energy drinks. 

RAW Nutrition has been recognized as the #1 fastest growing sports nutrition company by Inc. 5000 and was named Brand of the Year by GNC and Vitamin Shoppe.  

Willkie previously advised CVC on its acquisition of a majority stake in The Quality Group in 2022.

CVC is a leading global private markets manager focused on private equity, secondaries, credit and infrastructure with €200 billion of assets under management.

The Willkie corporate team was led by partners Thomas Mark and Tyler Born in the U.S. and partner Georg Linde and counsel Jacob Ahme in Frankfurt. The financing of the transaction was led by Daniel Gendron and counsel Timothy Sawyer in London.