Ankita Gulati
Associate Antitrust & Competition
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Overview
Ankita Gulati is an associate in the Antitrust and Competition Team based in London. Ankita is dual-qualified (India and New York) and advises on all aspects of competition law, including cartels, abuse of dominance, multi-jurisdictional mergers, and compliance issues. She has worked for clients in a wide range of industries, including private equity, retail, media, telecommunications, infrastructure, automotive, and electrical equipment sectors.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Ankita’s experience has included the following matters, advising:
- Advent International on its $6.3 billion acquisition of Canada-based global payments processor Nuvei Corporation.
- Cinven on its acquisition of all outstanding shares in SYNLAB AG, valued at approximately €2.2 billion.
- Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, on its sale to General Atlantic, a global growth equity investor.
- Carlisle Companies Incorporated on the sale of Carlisle Interconnect Technologies.
- Bain on:
- The significant equity investment in EcoCeres, Inc.
- The change from sole to joint control of Fedrigoni with BC Partners.
- Its investment in SumUp.
- Its $250 million investment in Cuisine Solutions Inc., the global leader and pioneer in sous vide premium foods.
- Bain and Diversey on the sale of Diversey to Solenis, a portfolio company of Platinum Equity, for $4.6 billion.
- Bain Capital Private Equity and its portfolio company, Blue Nile, in connection with its sale to Signet Jewellers Ltd.
- KKR on:
- The acquisition of CIRCOR International, Inc. in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion.
- On its investment in healthcare data and technology company Cotiviti.
- KKR and Alludo on the acquisition of Nitro Software.
- Thoma Bravo on:
- Its acquisition of Coupa Software for an enterprise value of $8 billion.
- The $10.4 billion acquisition of Anaplan, Inc.
- Its acquisition of SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. for approximately $6.9 billion.
- Its portfolio company Adenza’s agreement to be acquired by Nasdaq, Inc. for $10.5 billion in cash and shares of common stock.
- The acquisition of UserTesting.
- The sale of Barracuda to KKR.
- The acquisition of Magnet Forensics.
- Its strategic growth investment in Circle Cardiovascular Imaging.
- The public takeover offer for EQS Group AG.
- The acquisition of Everbridge, Inc. for $1.5 billion.
- Its take-private acquisition of Mercell Holding.
- The acquisition of Darktrace for approximately $5.3 billion.
- Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, on its acquisition of Tessian, a cloud email security platform.
- Thoma Bravo-backed Anaplan on the acquisition of Fluence Technologies, a financial close, consolidation, and reporting software provider.
- Genstar Capital on the acquisition of Lightspeed Systems, the market leader in online student safety and effectiveness.
- Beacon Rail Metro Finance B.V. on its acquisition of Mitsui Rail Capital Europe B.V., a full-service locomotive leasing business in Europe, from Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
- Vestar Capital Partners on the completion of a $1.2 billion continuation fund transaction.
- I Squared Capital in the formation of a pipeline joint venture between ISQ Whistler Holdings, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, Enbridge Inc. and MPLX.
- Apex Clean Energy on its partial sale of a portfolio of operating clean energy assets.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2021, New York
- 2016, Bar Council of India
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolLL.M.2019Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- National University of Juridical Sciences, KolkataLL.B.; B.A.(Hons)2015University Debating Colors for Excellence
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Advises EQS Group on Exclusive Negotiations to Acquire Data Legal Drive
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Cinven on Public Acquisition Offer for SYNLAB
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Bain Capital Private Equity in Significant Equity Investment in EcoCeres
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Bain Capital Private Equity on €3 Billion Acquisition and Financing for Fedrigoni
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Bain Capital on $250 Million Growth Investment in Cuisine Solutions