Leon Daoud

Advent International:

• on the committed financing to support its acquisition of a majority shareholding in Zimmermann
• on its joint venture with LANXESS and joint-acquisition of DSM Engineering Materials
• on its acquisition of artisanal food ingredients company IRCA
• and Cobham on the recommended £2.57 billion cash offer for Ultra Electronics PLC
• on its investment in the Hermes Group businesses in the UK and Germany

Blackstone:

• on its acquisition of the Huws Gray group and the UK merchanting businesses of the Grafton Group
• on its acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a leader in the UK domestic holiday market operating through three brands: Butlin’s, Haven and Warner Leisure Hotels
• on the recommended £4.77 billion cash offer for Merlin Entertainments, a global leader in location-based, family entertainment
• on its acquisition of National Exhibition Centre Group, a leading live events venue operator in the UK

CPP Investments:

• and Motive Partners on the $1.4 billion investment in FNZ, a global wealth management platform
• on the acquisition of an additional minority stake in Visma, a leading provider of business-critical software, in a transaction valuing the business at an enterprise value of $12.2 billion

Cinven on its public acquisition offer for the acquisition of SYNLAB AG

TPG Rise Climate on the financing aspects of its definitive agreement to purchase a majority stake in A-Gas from KKR

Zentiva Group on the amendment and extension of its €1.825 billion European TLB facility and €145 million revolving credit facility

Asda Group on the acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland operations for an enterprise value of c. £2.27 billion

FNZ Group on the agreed takeover of GBST, an ASX-listed financial software company

H.I.G. Capital and portfolio company Aspire Pharma on the acquisitions of Morningside Healthcare and Morningside Pharmaceuticals

Montagu Private Equity on the acquisition of the Education Software Solutions business of Capita plc. and on the agreement to invest in ParentPay

Summit Partners:

• on the acquisition and subsequent sale of Viroclinics-DDL, a virology contract research organisation, to Cerba Healthcare
• on the acquisition of 18 Week Support, a service provider offering high-quality clinical support services to NHS Trusts throughout the UK
• on the acquisition of City & County Healthcare Group, the largest provider of community-based home and social care services in the UK

Triton:

• and Atnahs Pharma on the acquisition of established hypertension medicines from AztraZeneca
• on its acquisition of a majority stake in Atnahs, a specialty pharmaceutical business
• on its acquisition of Sunweb Group, a leading European online travel operator

Warburg Pincus:

• on the sale of its remaining stake in Reiss to NEXT plc
• on the sale of Once For All to GTCR
• and Inmarsat on the $7.3 billion combination with Viasat, Inc.
• and Allied Universal on the financing for a recommended £3.8 billion cash offer for G4S
• on the co-investment in the combined group of Tilney Smith & Williamson, a leading wealth management and professional services business
• on the investment in Polyplus, a developer of innovative and cost-effective technology used in gene and cell therapy
• and Apax, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the $3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat, a British satellite communications group
• on the sale of Accelya, a leading global provider of financial, commercial and analytics solutions to the airline and travel industry, to Vista Private Equity

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London

• Senior Associate, 2016–2018

• Associate, 2011–2016