Since joining Kirkland, Sonia has worked on the following matters, advising:
- Technicolor on the tax aspects of its successful comprehensive financial restructuring
- Providence Equity Partners on the exclusive negotiations relating to the potential acquisition of a majority stake in Groupe La Centrale
- Trinseo on the €1.137 billion contemplated acquisition of Arkema’s PMMA business
- Appfire, a portfolio company of Silversmith Capital Partners, on its acquisition of Innovalog
- The Arc group (“Arc”), the world leader in tableware, on the reorganization of its financial structure
- Warburg Pincus on its investment in Polyplus, a developer of innovative and cost-effective technology used in gene and cell therapy
Prior to joining Kirkland, Sonia worked on the following matters, advising:
- the founder and managers of the Euro Techno Com group in connection with Carlyle’s investment
- Dentressangle in connection with the acquisition of the Actéon group
- Weinberg Capital Partners on the reorganization of the share capital of Adit and the subsequent sale of the group to Parquest Capital
- Cerea and Ardian, co-investors, in connection with the acquisition of Mademoiselle Dessert by IK Investment Partners
- InVivo Retail (Gamm Vert / Delbard) in connection with the acquisition of Jardiland from L-Gam
- Alchemy in connection with the sale of the JOA group
- the Ethypharm group on the refinancing of its unitranche debt by Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan and the acquisition of DBA
- the Ethypharm group on its acquisition by PAI from Astorg
- the lenders in relation to the restructuring of the debt and takeover of the Desmet Ballestra group by its senior lenders
- Private Theory in relation to the debt restructuring and take-over of Arc International
- the senior lenders in relation to the restructuring of the debt and takeover of the Winoa group
- ICG in relation to the debt restructuring and takeover of the Parkeon group
