Dana Abdulkarim

Since joining Kirkland, Dana has worked on the following matters:

• CPP Investments on the acquisition of a minority stake in Regnology
• TPG on its investment in Vinted
• Bain Capital Insurance on a reinsurance brokerage joint venture with WTW
• Carlyle on the sale of Jagex to CVC and Haveli Investments
• Apax Partners on various transactions, including the:
  • sale of Healthium to KKR; and
  • simultaneous acquisitions of OCS and Finwave from, respectively, Charme Capital Partners and Lutech
• Sandbrook Capital on various transactions, including:
  • the acquisition of NeXtWind Capital, a leading German renewable energy company specializing in acquiring and repowering onshore wind farms, by a consortium led by Sandbrook Capital;
  • a significant equity commitment in Voltwise Power, a newly-formed developer, owner and operator of utility-scale battery energy storage systems across select geographies in Europe
  • $500 million partnership with PSP Investments to fund Havfram, an offshore wind infrastructure company
• Vetnique Labs, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors, on its acquisition Lintbells, a globally recognized leader in pet supplements sold under the YuMOVE brand
• Digital 9 Infrastructure on the sale of Verne Global
• SourceCode, a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management LP, on its agreement to acquire a provider of high-performance server and storage solutions
• Covanta and EQT Infrastructure on the carve-out of Covanta’s European operations to create a standalone Waste-to-Energy platform
• A real estate private equity firm on its joint venture investment of up to €300 million in UK and French office space
• GIC on the acquisition of an Enterprise Value logistics portfolio located in northeast England

Prior to joining Kirkland, Dana worked on the following matters: 

Capital Markets

• US$275 million placing and open offer by Petrofac Limited
• US$140 million and US$90 million fundraises by Yellow Cake Plc

Private M&A and Private Equity

• €420 million acquisition by Digital Colony Partners and PSP (acting through Vantage Europe) of Next Generation Data, Europe’s largest data center
• £26 million sale by a green fund of a 50% share in a Swedish wind farm to a Chinese private equity investor
• $500 million joint venture between a Saudi family office and a European PE investor into European renewables
• Auction sale of a Carlyle portfolio company
• Advising on Brookfield Asset Management and Oaktree on their UK post-merger obligations
• Stonegate Pub Company’s £50 million acquisition of the Be At One chain of bars
• Euroclear’s reorganisation and redomicile to Belgium
• Caffè Nero’s £35 million acquisition of Coffee #1 Limited

Public M&A

• Takeda’s £46 billion takeover of Shire plc
• Bovis Homes’ £1.1 billion acquisition of Galliford Try’s Partnerships and Housing businesses
• Unilever’s €6.8 billion sale of its Spreads business to KKR
• UBM’s US$5 billion takeover by Informa Plc
• SABMiller’s US$108 billion takeover by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
• Home Retail Group’s £1.2 billion takeover offer by J Sainsbury plc
• Al Noor Hospitals’ £6.8 billion combination with Mediclinic International Limited

Linklaters LLP, London

• Associate, 2017–2021
• Legal secondee to European Life Group, 2020
• Legal secondee to The Carlyle Group, 2017
• Trainee Solicitor, 2015–2017