M&A team represents Silver Ventures in its sale of NatureSweet to Blue Road Capital

Norton Rose Fulbright represented Silver Ventures, a growth capital firm, in its sale of NatureSweet to Blue Road Capital, an independent investment firm focused on vertically integrated food and agricultural business.

Founded in San Antonio in 1990, NatureSweet is the producer of North America’s best-selling snacking tomato and the largest vertically integrated greenhouse grower of vegetables in North America. NatureSweet tomatoes, cucumbers and sweet peppers are grown, harvested and packaged by more than 6,000 full-time associates and sold at major grocers, mass retailers, club stores and food service operators in the United States, Canada and Mexico. NatureSweet is the world’s largest Controlled Environment Agricultural company that has achieved Fair Trade Certification, Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) Certification, and B Corp Certification.

Silver Ventures is a growth capital firm established in 1995 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Silver Ventures is focused on building transformative food and beverage companies through identifying individuals who believe every meal creates the possibility to exchange culture, community, commerce and most of all joy.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s M&A team was led by Daryl L. Lansdale (San Antonio and Austin) and included Charles E. Hord III (New York), Benjamin A. Montanez (San Antonio), Cassidy Tennyson and Olivia Law Sone (Dallas).

Additional legal support was provided by Todd Schroeder, Alex Clark (Dallas), Todd Chelius and Hersh Verma (Houston) on tax, Kimberly Perdue, Will Badcock and Spencer Brown (Dallas) on finance, Amanda Wait and Andrew Eklund (Washington, DC) on antitrust and Katie Van Dyk and Valerie Medina (Austin) on real estate.