Celyn Evans

GIC:

• on its establishment of a €400 million joint venture platform with Melcombe Partners, a UK-based asset manager and adviser
• on the acquisition of an Enterprise Value logistics portfolio located in northeast England
• on the £694 million acquisition of a 75% stake in the majority of Paddington Central assets from British Land 
• on its $525 million joint venture with Equinix to develop and operate two xScale™ data centres in South Korea
• on its $3.9 billion additional joint ventures with Equinix to expand the xScale™ data centre programme
• on its joint venture with Kennedy Wilson to acquire and manage urban logistics properties in the UK, Ireland and Spain, targeting total assets of $1 billion
• on its joint venture with Melcombe Partners to acquire and develop urban logistics properties in Europe 
• on the over $1 billion co-investment with Equinix to develop and operate xScale™ data centres in Japan
• on the €950 million buyout acquisition of a pan-European logistics platform from Apollo
• on its €2.4 billion acquisition of P3 Logistic Park
• on the $1 billion acquisition of Equinix Inc’s pan European hyperscale data centre business
• as part of the c. €4.4 billion consortium acquiring a 55% a stake in the real estate assets of French multinational hotel group AccorHotels
• on the sale of its stake in Spanish real estate company Axiare Patrimonio as a pre-cursor to the €1.46 billion takeover bid for Axiare by Inmobilaria Colonial

Sani/Ikos Group on its recapitalization and strategic partnership agreement with GIC

Covanta and EQT Infrastructure on the carve-out of Covanta’s European operations to create a standalone Waste-to-Energy platform 

Macquarie Asset Management on the strategic real estate partnership with NTT’s wholesale facilities across Europe and North America 

EQT Infrastructure:

• on the acquisition of Green Investment Group’s stake in Covanta
• on the $5.3 billion acquisition on Covanta Holding Corporation

Hudson Pacific Properties, alongside Blackstone, on the plan to create a major new centre for film, TV and digital production in the UK 

A sovereign wealth fund on the acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio for over €3 billion from EQT Exeter

Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division on its acquisition of B&B Hotels

Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, one of the largest global hospitality companies, on its agreement to sell its European vacation rental business to Platinum Equity for approximately US$1.3 billion

Advising Al Rayyan Tourism Investment Company on the acquisition of Sheraton Istanbul City Center Hotel

Marguerite Adviser S.A. on the sale by The Marguerite Fund of a portfolio of five European infrastructure assets to Pantheon

Rhône Capital on the acquisition of a 45% interest in Maxam

Brookfield:

• on its c. £3 billion consortium bid for Intu plc
• on its successful (non-recommended) takeover of Songbird Estates PLC and Canary Wharf Group in consortium with Qatar Investment Authority*

PSP Investments on the termination of the Isolux Infrastructure / ROADIS joint venture with Isolux Corsan*

Advising AIMCo, Allianz, EDF Invest and Hastings on their acquisition of Porterbrook Rail*

Qatar Holdings on its investment in a consortium acquiring 50 percent of Amex’s Global Business Travel Division*

Investec plc on the sale of a stake in Investec Asset Management to a team of senior fund managers*

Rothesay Life on the acquisition of pension buyout house Paternoster*

Serco Group plc on the disposal of its nuclear technical consulting business to Amec plc*

RIT Capital Partners plc:

• on its joint venture with the Edmond de Rothschild Group where RIT acquired a stake in the Capital Holdings Funds*
• on its investment in Corsair Capital, a private equity firm focused on financial services*

SABMiller plc on its takeover by Anheuser-Busch InBev*

AREA Property Partners and Delancey on their acquisition of Minerva plc*

*Matters prior to joining Kirkland

Linklaters LLP, London

• Managing Associate, Linklaters London, 2014–2016

• Managing Associate, Linklaters New York, 2013–2014

• Associate, 2009–2013

• Trainee Solicitor, 2007–2009