Paul, Weiss is advising global leading specialty materials and surface technologies company Kymera International in its acquisition of Fiven ASA, a global leader in silicon carbide, from OpenGate Capital. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of Fiven will accelerate Kymera’s mission to become a high-growth specialty materials and chemicals platform, and unlock substantial organic growth opportunities for the combined business. Kymera is a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners, LLC.

The Paul, Weiss team is led by partners Samuel Welt, Thomas de la Bastide, Reuven Garrett and Neil Goldman, and includes corporate partners David Huntington and David Carmona and counsel Stephen Koo, Nathan Mitchell and Niklas Ahlklo; intellectual property partner Charles Googe; executive compensation partners Rebecca Coccaro and Jarrett Hoffman and counsel Sasha Belinkie, Jake Glazeski and Lisa Krausz Eisenberg; litigation partners Aidan Synnott, John Carlin and Roberto Gonzalez, and counsel Sam Kleiner; tax partners Brad Okun and Cian O’Connor and counsel Patrick Karsnitz; real estate partner Peter Fisch; antitrust partner Annie Herdman and counsel Chad de Souza and Marta Kelly; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.