DLA Piper advises Redgate Software on majority investment from Bregal Sagemount

DLA Piper has advised Redgate Software on the strategic growth investment by Bregal Sagemount, a leading growth-focused private equity firm. Redgate Software sought investment as part of its next phase of growth and portfolio expansion. The investment positions Bregal Sagemount as the majority shareholder of Redgate Software, supporting the company’s global development and long-term vision.

Redgate Software, founded in 1999 in Cambridge, United Kingdom, is a global provider of database management solutions with more than 500 employees across six international locations, including its US headquarters in Austin, Texas. The company’s full portfolio of database DevOps solutions is trusted by more than 200,000 data professionals globally, including 92 % of the Fortune 100, to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and protect business-critical data.

The investment from Bregal Sagemount will enable Redgate’s leadership team to deliver on its vision of becoming the trusted database operations platform, offering customers control across their entire database lifecycles. The transaction, pending regulatory approval, is expected to close in late Q1 2026.

Bregal Sagemount is a leading growth-focused private capital firm with over USD7.5 billion of cumulative capital raised. The firm provides flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors across a wide variety of transaction situations.

A multidisciplinary and cross-border DLA Piper team, led by Corporate partners Ed Griffiths, Co-Head of Private Equity, and Danny Westmoreland, worked on the transaction. The team also included partners Gareth Stokes (IPT), Nick Hipwell (Employment), David Thompson (Tax), Matt Evans, and Paolo Morante (both Lit&Reg), senior associate Michael Stead, associates Joanna Shepherd, Matthew Rose, William Barrett, and trainee solicitor Jensen Moss, alongside a team of lawyers from across DLA Piper's international offices.

Ed Griffiths, partner, commented: “We are proud to have advised Redgate on this highly significant transaction which will be key to accelerating its growth ambitions, expanding its product portfolio and its continued investment in innovation. It also provides a clear illustration of the continued strength and resilience of the software sector and the appetite that investors have for high-quality, scalable technology businesses."