Leon Daoud

Since joining Kirkland, Leon has been involved in the following matters:

• Blackstone on the recommended £4.77 billion cash offer for Merlin Entertainments, a global leader in location-based, family entertainment

• A consortium consisting of Apax, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the $3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat, a British satellite communications group

• Blackstone Capital Partners on its acquisition of National Exhibition Centre Group, a leading live events venue operator in the UK

• Triton Partners on its acquisition of Sunweb Group, a leading European online travel operator

• Bristol-Myers Squibb on the offer from Taisho Pharmaceutical to purchase the UPSA consumer health business for $1.6 billion

Prior to joining Kirkland, Leon’s representative matters included advising:

• CVC Capital Partners on the financing for its acquisition of Theramex

• Goldman Sachs on a bridge to high yield bond refinancing for Almaviva SpA

• Advent International on the financing for its acquisition of Faerch Plast

• Warburg Pincus on the financing for its acquisition of a minority stake in Avaloq

• CVC Capital Partners on the financing for its acquisition of Tipico

• Warburg Pincus on the financing for its acquisition of Reiss

• Mercator, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, on the financing for its acquisition of RMS

• Tilney Bestinvest, a Permira portfolio company, on the financing for the acquisitions of the Towry and Ingenious financial services groups

• Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic on the financing for their joint acquisition of a minority stake in Network International LLC

• CVC Capital Partners on the bank / bond financing for its acquisition of Douglas

• CVC Capital Partners on the financing for its acquisition of Synsam Nordic

• Warburg Pincus and Poundland on a post-IPO facility for Poundland’s listing on the London Stock Exchange

• Advent International on the financing for its take-private acquisition of Mediq

• CVC Capital Partners on the senior financing for its acquisition of Ahlsell

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London

• Senior Associate, 2016–2018

• Associate, 2011–2016