Brad Hillson

Examples of transaction on which Brad has advised since joining Kirkland include:

• Global Logistics Properties (GLP) on:
  
  • the formation of GLP Continental Europe Development Partners I, a €2 billion fund that targets logistics properties in Europe
  • the formation of GLP Europe Income Partners, a €800 fund that invests in industrial and warehouse properties
  • the formation of GLP Europe Development Partners I, a €1.1 billion opportunistic fund that invests in industrial properties in Western Europe
  • its acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management for approximately US$2.8 billion
  • the acquisition of Goodman Group’s Central and Eastern Europe logistics real estate portfolio

• Summit Partners on:
  • its latest flagship U.S. growth equity fund, Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund X with total commitments of $4.9 billion.
  • the formation of Summit Partners Europe Private Equity II
  • the formation of Summit Partners Credit Fund III
  • its sale of Independent Vetcare Limited (IVC) to EQT Partners
  • on its co-investment, alongside Bridgepoint SAS, in Calypso Technology, Inc.

• Falko Regional Aircraft Limited on the formation of Falko Fund II, an aircraft leasing fund
• Highland Europe on the formation of Highland Europe Technology Growth III, a €463 growth equity fund focused on technology companies in Europe
• Partners Group in connection with its sale of a portfolio of private equity fund interests for approximately $996 million
• GPI Capital on the formation of GPI Capital I
• CD Capital, a London-based specialist natural resources and mining private equity manager, which recently closed CD Capital Natural Resources Fund III with aggregate capital commitments of US$355 million.
• GIC as LP counsel on its investments in multiple debt SMAs
• Autodis S.A., a Bain Capital portfolio company, in connection with the offering by Autodis S.A. of €520 million senior secured notes due 2022
• Modine Manufacturing Company, a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, in a definitive agreement to acquire Luvata Heat Transfer Solutions for a total consideration of approximately US$422 million
• Bain Capital and the Autodistribution Group in connection with the financing of the acquisition by Autodis S.A. of Doyen Auto
• Nets A/S, a payments services portfolio company of Advent International and Bain Capital, in connection with its IPO and related EUR 1,400,000,000 IPO financing
• Eir, Ireland's largest telecommunications company, on the issuance of its EUR 500,000,000 senior secured notes and establishment of a EUR 150,000,000 revolving credit facility to its existing EUR 2,000,000 senior facilities agreement
• Travelodge Group on its offering of £290,000,000 8 1⁄2% Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2023 and £100,000,000 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2023 and entry into a new super senior revolving credit facility in connection with their refinancing of existing debt

Examples of transactions on which Brad has advised prior to Kirkland include:

• A private equity fund on its proposed acquisition of telecommunications towers in Africa from an Indian seller for approximately $500m
• A private equity fund on its £2.3bn financing and acquisition of a loan portfolio secured on commercial real estate
• A global bank in respect of a $650m high-yield bond issue by a multinational oil company
• A NASDAQ-listed oil energy company on a $2bn financing from the ‘Term Loan B’ market
• One of the world’s largest independent exploration and production companies on the restructuring of a North Sea field interest for a three-way sale totalling approximately $1.5bn
• An independent exploration and production oil company in its sale of four heli-transportable rigs to a Russian oil company
• An oil major on various issues, including profit apportionment for supplementary charge purposes, tax exposure for non-UK tankers in the UK sector, and apportionment of value as between installations and oil-in-ground on a field sale

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