Louis Gosset

Since joining Kirkland, Louis has worked on the following matters, advising:

• Oakley Capital and General Atlantic on their investment in Brevo, a European leader in customer engagement software
• Coller Capital on the investment in a continuation fund transaction involving Olyos
• Warburg Pincus on entering exclusive negotiations to acquire a significant minority stake in Sebia
• CD&R and Permira consortium on the €2.2 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Exclusive Networks
• BW Gestão de Investimentos on the €5 billion financing for its voluntary tender offer for Verallia Shares
• Bain-backed Maesa on the sale of its EMEA business to KDC/ONE
• Wendel on the partnership agreement and majority acquisition of Monroe Capital
• Blue Wolf on the acquisition of Synerlab
• Esker on the take private by Bridgepoint, in association with General Atlantic and management shareholders
• Thoma Bravo on the definitive agreement to acquire PROS
• Waters Corporation on the $39 billion combination with BD’s biosciences & diagnostics business
• Dunes Point Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Kravet
• Blue Wolf on the acquisition of seven CDMO sites from Recipharm
• Arctos on its partnership and investment in Paris Saint-Germain
• Searchlight Capital on a €307 million recapitalization of Latécoère
• Warburg Pincus on the sale of Once For All to GTCR
• HgCapital on its majority investment in Nomadia
• Adenza, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo on its acquisition by Nasdaq for $10.5 billion
• Metaco on its sale to Ripple
• Nordic-Backed ArisGlobal on the acquisition of Amplexor Life Sciences
• GIC on its investment in Unither
• Thoma Bravo on its definitive agreement to acquire ForgeRock
• Clearwater Analytics on the acquisition of JUMP Technology
• Latécoère on the Acquisition of Avcorp
• Fortius, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, on the acquisition of Once For All (Attestation Légale)
• Antin on its €4.1 billion initial public offering on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange
• Thoma Bravo on the acquisition of Calypso Technology, Inc. from Bridgepoint and Summit Partners
• InPost S.A. on the €565 million proposed acquisition of Mondial Relay 
• Thoma Bravo on the $2.4 billion acquisition of Talend
• Trinseo on the €1.137 billion contemplated acquisition of Arkema’s PMMA business
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on its reinvestment in Eurofiber, including the sale of a minority stake to PGGM
• Horizon, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, on the €185m sale of 7.7 million Verallia shares through an accelerated bookbuild offering to institutional investors
• Vitruvian Partners on the sale of Technogroup to 3i-backed Evernex
• Apollo funds on the IPO of Verallia SA on the French Stock Exchange - the largest IPO in France in 2019
• Searchlight Capital on the takeover offer of Latécoère
• Searchlight Capital on the acquisition of a minority stake in Latécoère

Prior to joining Kirkland, Louis worked on the following matters, advising:

• the management of Saint Mamet, a French fruit company, on its sale to Hivest
• Core Equity on the acquisition of IdVerde
• Bunzl, an international British retail company, on the sale of SodaStream France
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the acquisition of a majority stake in OGF
• Weinberg Capital Partners on the sale of Sasa Industries
• Oaktree on the sale of SGD
• Apax on the acquisitions of Marlink and Telemar
• Atos, an international French technology company, on the tender offer and squeeze out on Bull
• CVC funds on the acquisition of Parex
• Cinven on the sale of Frans Bonhomme

Bredin Prat (2017–2019)

Weil Gotshal & Manges (2014–2017)