Ben Burton

Since joining Kirkland, Ben's representative matters include:

• GTCR on the acquisition of JMG Group
• Advent International and Zentiva Group on the amendment and extension of Zentiva Group's European TLB facility
• Consortium of CVC Private Equity Funds, Nordic Capital and ADIA on the £5.4 billion recommended cash acquisition of Hargreaves Lansdown
• KPS Capital Partners on the acquisition of Sport Group
• CPP Investments in connection with a change of the corporate structure of Axel Springer Group
• Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC's on its acquisition of European CDMO Assets
• Ardonagh Group in relation the refinancing of Ardonagh Group's existing unitranche financing and senior unsecured notes with new private credit loans and senior secured notes due 2031 and new senior unsecured notes due 2032
• Consolis Group's recapitalisation of its existing facilities
• A U.S.-based sponsor on its first European acquisition

Prior to joining Kirkland, Ben was involved in the following matters:

• Blackstone's public to private acquisition of Italian infrastructure group Atlantia
• Partners Group's acquisition of Forterro
• Partners Group's acquisition of Version 1
• Cinven's acquisition of Bayer Environmental Science
• CVC Capital Partners' acquisition of Maticmind S.p.A and related acquisition by Maticmind of a majority stake in a leading Italian cybersecurity and intelligence technologies business
• TDR's refinancing of the existing facilities of Norwegian coastal ferry and cruise-line group, Hurtigruten
• Groupe Bruxelles Lambert's acquisition of Sanoptis
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management's acquisition of The Clear Group
• FC Barcelona's financing in support of their stadium redevelopment
• Loxam's senior secured notes offering and exchange offering
• A leading provider of lithium for electric vehicle batteries in relation to its ongoing financing arrangements
• A top-tier sponsor's bid for a regulated gambling asset
• EQT's acquisition of Schülke, and the subsequent refinancing of the Schülke facilities
• Lonestar's public to private acquisition of McCarthy & Stone plc
• A top-tier consortium's bid to establish a pan-European football super league and the related media-rights sales
• Sazka Group's public to private acquisition of OPAP
• A Champions' League winning football club's financing arrangements, secured by football league rights, broadcasting revenues and sponsorship revenues
• Hellman & Friedman's public to private acquisition of Nets A/S
• Hellman & Friedman's recapitalisation of the indebtedness of its portfolio company, Verisure
• Vantiv’s public to private acquisition of Worldpay
• Thoma Bravo's acquisition of Qlik Technologies Inc.

Counsel, Shearman & Sterling LLP, London, 2022–2024

Counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, London, 2019–2022

Associate, Latham & Watkins LLP, London and New York, 2014–2019