Anthony Antioch

Restructuring

• Creditors, debtors and shareholders on a number of debt restructurings and insolvencies, including Altera Infrastructure, Avanti Communications, Bartec, Bulsatcom, Celsius Network, China Fishery Group, Debenhams, General Healthcare Group, Hilding Anders, Hurtigruten, Lebara, Lecta, Lehman Brothers, McDermott International, Mothercare, Noble, PizzaExpress, Seadrill Partners, Selecta, Steinhoff International, Technicolor, Venator Materials and WiZink

Corporate

• Worldpay and GTCR on the sale of Worldpay to Global Payments for $24.25 billion as part of a transformative three-way transaction
• Honeywell on the acquisition of Sundyne
• Thoma Bravo-backed Darktrace on the acquisition of Cado Security
• The consortium of Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the $7.3 billion sale of Inmarsat, a UK telecommunications group, to Viasat
• Bain Capital on a number of transactions, including the €3 billion acquisition of Fedrigoni in partnership with BC Partners and the €3.4 billion joint takeover offer with Carlyle for Osram
• BC Partners on a number of transactions, including its investment in Valtech, giving the digital services group a $1.4 billion value, and its sale of Elysium Healthcare to Ramsay Health Care
• Blackstone on a number of transactions, including its acquisition of VFS Global, its £4.77 billion takeover of Merlin Entertainments, the £1.46 billion privatisation of Network Rail’s commercial real estate portfolio, its €492 million acquisition of Industrial Securities Europe’s logistics real estate portfolio, the $4.73 billion takeover of Signature Aviation, the acquisition of NGA Human Resources by Alight Solutions and the acquisition of Moonbug Entertainment by Candle Media
• Brookfield Asset Management on a number of transactions, including its bid for the £4+ billion iQ student accommodation portfolio and its $360 million acquisition of Everise from Everstone, and Altera Infrastructure on the sale of Altera Shuttle Tankers to the Angelicoussis Group
• Clearlake Capital Group on its acquisition of MV Credit from Natixis Investment Managers
• Francisco Partners on the €150 million capital raise and €250 million minority stake sale in EG
• Genius Sports Group on its $1.5 billion de-SPAC combination with dMY Technology Group II and its subsequent offer to exercise and consent solicitation to eliminate all of its public warrants
• GTCR on a number of transactions, including its $2.1 billion acquisition of Wells Fargo Asset Management in partnership with Reverence Capital Partners, its acquisition of 55% of Worldpay which valued the business at $18.5 billion, the $800 million acquisition of Surgical Specialties Corporation by Corza Health, the €350 million carve-out acquisition of TachoSil by Corza Health from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and the acquisition of Medelec by Resonetics
• Riskonnect, backed by TA Associates and Thoma Bravo, on the acquisition of Sword GRC
• Summit Partners on its growth equity investments in Akeneo, LearnUpon and Red Points
• Sun Capital Partners and Sun European Partners on a number of transactions, including the acquisition of Adler & Allan from LDC and the $475 million sale of Dreams to Tempur Sealy
• Synova on the passive minority investment in its business by Bonaccord Capital Partners
• TA Associates on the acquisition of Abaca Systems by its portfolio company Advantive
• TDR Capital on a number of transactions, including matters relating to its investments in Buffalo Grill, David Lloyd Leisure, EG Group, Keepmoat Homes, NKD Group and Stonegate
• Thoma Bravo on a number of transactions, including its investment in Logex, which was the inaugural investment by Thoma Bravo’s Europe-based team, its takeover of EQS Group, its acquisition of a majority stake in USU Product and its $5.3 billion takeover of Darktrace
• Thomas H. Lee Partners on a number of transactions, including its acquisition of a majority stake in Bynder and the sale by its portfolio company CARET of HotDocs to Mitratec
• TPG Capital on its €330 million acquisition of the majority of the Témpore Properties REIT
• Vista Equity Partners on a number of transactions, including the acquisition of Miles 33 by Naviga, the combination of FWI and Poppulo and the sale of Allocate alongside Hg Capital
• Warburg Pincus on its sale of Accelya, a travel technology group, to Vista Equity Partners

Finance

• The consortium of Advent International, Cinven and the RAG-Stiftung on the financing of the €17.2 billion acquisition of Thyssenkrupp Elevator, one of the largest ever European buyouts
• Advent International on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of Zimmermann, IRCA and Industria Chimica Emiliana (ICE) and the acquisition of NZP by ICE
• Bain Capital on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisition of majority stakes in House of HR and Maesa and its investment in the Serie A football club Atalanta BC
• BC Partners on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisition of majority stakes in Davies Group and Havea Group and the acquisition of Wind Hellas by United Group
• Blackstone on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of Bourne Leisure, Huws Gray and the NEC Group and the refinancing of a central London office property
• Brookfield Asset Management on the financing of its acquisition of a portfolio of UK retail parks
• GLP on the financing of a number of transactions, including more than €2 billion of real estate acquisitions across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and other countries

Funds

• Alvarez & Marsal Capital, Blackstone Strategic Partners, Chorus Capital, IK Partners, Summit Partners, TDR Capital, Triton Partners and other sponsors on fund-level matters, including fundraisings, carried interest and co-investment planning, secondaries and fund finance

Linklaters LLP, London & Moscow, 2015–2018