Battery Ventures / Battery Global Advisors, LLC
Battery Ventures acquires majority stake in Sustainability at Work Group
Summary: Latham & Watkins said it advised Battery Ventures on the acquisition of a majority stake in Sustainability at Work Group. The Latham note describes Sustainability at Work Group as developing and administering digital certification systems and providing consulting services across critical supply chains.
Why it matters: The update may matter to due-diligence readers as a source-attributed Battery private-transaction and platform-expansion signal, while it should not be used to infer valuation, certification effectiveness, operating results, returns, or investment merit.
Summary
Latham & Watkins said it advised tech-focused investment firm Battery Ventures on the acquisition of a majority stake in Sustainability at Work Group. The Latham note says the group develops and administers digital certification systems and provides consulting services across critical supply chains.
The source also says sellers Jan Henke and Norbert Schmitz will remain invested. This draft treats the item as a source-party-adjacent transaction-counsel note, not as independent validation of transaction value, operating quality, certification effectiveness, customer outcomes, returns, or investment merit.
Why it matters
For due-diligence readers, a majority-stake acquisition can be a useful public marker of a manager’s platform activity, sector focus, and control-or-growth-equity transaction cadence. Here, the useful signal is that Battery is named as the buyer in a transaction-counsel note involving a certification-systems and supply-chain consulting group.
The signal is bounded by the source posture. Latham’s note supports Battery’s role, the majority-stake framing, the general company description, and the continuing seller-investment point. It does not disclose valuation, fund or vehicle identity, ownership percentage beyond the majority-stake description, expected operating outcomes, certification quality, or investment performance.
Source notes
- Latham & Watkins transaction note: https://www.lw.com/en/news/2026/09/latham-advises-battery-ventures-on-acquisition-of-majority-stake-in-sustainability-at-work-group
- Public adviser identity reference: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/158508
- Source posture: source-party-adjacent law-firm transaction note. The draft should use Latham for tightly attributed transaction facts and should prefer a Battery or company announcement if an editor later recovers one.
- Verifier posture: the 2026-09-15 PM verifier cleared the item for drafting with high Battery identity confidence and found no same-event local duplicate.
9AT filing context
Public adviser/profile context reviewed by 9AT maps Battery Global Advisors, LLC / Battery Ventures to CRD 158508 / SEC file 801-73308, CIK 1582272, and about $8.4 billion in ADV-reported profile scale. That context is useful only for broad adviser/platform identity background.
No 13F or Form 5500 context is included. Public-equity holdings and retirement-plan filings do not explain a private majority-stake acquisition, transaction economics, operating quality, supply-chain certification outcomes, or investment merit.
What to watch
Watch for Battery, Sustainability at Work Group, Latham, regulatory, or company disclosures that add closing details, governance or ownership information, operating plans, additional capital partners, or source-party confirmation from the buyer or company.
Future coverage should avoid converting a transaction-counsel announcement into conclusions about valuation, ESG or certification effectiveness, customer results, returns, or suitability.