Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has advised GetCourse founder and CEO Sergey Mikhaylov on a USD 50 million private equity deal with Goldman Sachs, Winter Capital Partners, and Baring Vostok Capital Partners funds. Herbert Smith Freehills advised the funds on the deal.
According to BCLP, “set up in 2014, the GetCourse platform is currently helping more than 20 thousand schools, teachers, coaches, educators, and bloggers by providing a set of functional modules for creating online courses and educational websites, facilitating marketing activities and content sales, as well as email services and end-to-end analytical tools.”
Goldman Sachs is a global financial institution.
Winter Capital Partners is an investment fund focused on investing in technology companies in education, healthcare, financial, and consumer services around the world, with over USD 1 billion in assets under management.
The Baring Vostok funds focus on private equity investments in Russia and the CIS, having invested more than USD 3.7 billion over the past 27 years.
BCLP’s team included Partner Anton Sitnikov, Counsels Anna Zelenskaya and Anton Nefedev, Senior Associates Denis Khramkin and Mikhail Filatov, and Associates Elena Shelomenzeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, and Marina Galitskaya.
Herbert Smith Freehills' team included Partners Evgeny Zelensky, David D'Souza, Susannah Cogman, and Miriam Everett, Counsel Jonathan Cross, Senior Associates Denis Morozov and Sergey Eremin, Associates Elena Manasyan, Robert Bikbulatov, Simeon Volkov, Christopher Boyd, and Hannah Brown, and Trainees Konstantin Korennoy and Ksenia Zbyshevskaya.
