Mavnick Nerwal

Representative matters including some prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis include advising:

• GI Partners on the acquisition of Digita Group from DigitalBridge
• GI Partners on the debt backing acquisition of Netwatch
• Blackstone-backed AirTrunk on the strategic partnership with HUMAIN
• Ardian on the acquisition of Energia Group
• KKR on the growth investment in Infobric
• Advent on the acquisition of a majority stake in Reckitt’s Essential Home
• Blackstone portfolio company Bourne Leisure on a refinancing with a £2.9 billion facilities agreement
• BW Gestão de Investimentos on the €5 billion financing for its voluntary tender offer for Verallia shares
• Preservation Capital Partners on its minority investment in Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL)
• Honeywell on the acquisition of Sundyne
• TDR-backed Hurtigruten to complete a recapitalization transaction
• Brookfield on the sale of Tritax EuroBox’s assets to SEGRO
• GIC on the investment in Synthon
• Aequitas on the sale of a 50% stake in Höegh Evi Ltd. to Igneo
• Brookfield and Altera Infrastructure on the sale of Altera Shuttle Tankers to the Angelicoussis Group
• GIC on the acquisition of an additional stake in Belron
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, on its acquisition of a 50% controlling stake in Opella from Sanofi, for an enterprise value of €16 billion
• Strategic Value Partners on the cash offer for Nordic Paper
• Ares-backed Automated Industrial Robotics in its acquisition of Sewtec Automation, an industrial automation company, from Endless
• TPG on the acquisition of Aareon for €3.9 billion
• J.M. Huber Corporation on the sale of CP Kelco to Tate & Lyle
• Advent on the sale of V.Group to a consortium led by STAR Capital
• TDR Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Asda
• Cushman & Wakefield on an underwritten secondary offering of ordinary shares
• EP Group on its possible offer for International Distribution Services
• Global Technical Realty on the acquisition financing of a London data center at more than £1 billion
• An ad hoc committee of creditors, including Strategic Value Partners, Cross Ocean and Deutsche Bank, on the successful $2.2 billion restructuring of the Intu SGS Group
• Ardagh on $1.1 billion unrestricted subsidiary financing
• Blackstone on the acquisition of Winthrop Technologies
• Galderma Group AG on the structuring and implementation of its IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange
• Funds managed by AGG Capital Management on the acquisition of a majority stake in AFE
• Carlyle on the sale of Jagex to CVC and Haveli Investments
• Food delivery brands group on its approximately €500 million restructuring
• Morrisons and its shareholder Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on entering into an agreement to sell petrol forecourts to MFG and take a minority stake
• Apax Partners LLP on the unitranche financing for the acquisition of WGSN Limited from Ascential plc.
• Brookfield on the recapitalization of Schoeller Allibert
• Trive Capital Partners on the recommended cash offer for Ten Entertainment Group
• Digital 9 Infrastructure on the sale of Verne Global
• Permira on establishing a co-invest vehicle with Blackstone to support the acquisition of Adevinta
• Brookfield on a series of real estate financings for its Befimmo (Belgium) and Hibernia (Irish) office portfolios, raising approximately €2 billion
• Centerbridge Partners on the sale of its majority interests in APCOA
• Venator to emerge from Chapter 11 restructuring
• BC Partners on the sale of IMA Group to BDT & MSD Partners
• Gen II Fund Services on the acquisition of Crestbridge
• SourceCode and Cerberus on its agreement to acquire Boston Limited
• Norwegian Cruise Line on multiple liability management and liquidity transactions
• Parthenon Capital on the strategic investment in Titan Wealth Holdings
• The Ad Hoc Committee of first lien noteholders in respect of the successful recapitalisation of the Matalan Group
• Sandbrook Capital on $500 million partnership with PSP Investments to Fund Havfram
• Technicolor on the spinoff and listing of its creative visual arts services division
• CPP Investments on the acquisition of a stake in Universal Investment
• Altera Infrastructure L.P. in pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of Wildstone
• Power Factors on the acquisition of Inaccess
• Brookfield on the sale of Student Roost to a joint venture formed between GIC and Greystar 
• I Squared Capital:
  • on the successful final closing of ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III with total capital commitments of $15 billion
  • and TDR Capital on the £2.322 billion recommended cash acquisition of Aggreko, a world-leading provider of mobile modular power, temperature control and energy services 
  • on the acquisition of TIP Trailer Services
  • on the acquisition of French home care business Domidep
• Partners Group on the acquisition of Forterro, a leading pan-European software services provider 
• Brookfield on the all-cash voluntary public takeover offer for Befimmo SA, a real estate investor focused on office buildings and co-working spaces in Brussels and Luxembourg 
• CPP Investments and Motive Partners on the $1.4 billion investment in FNZ, a global wealth management platform 
• Vitruvian Partners on the acquisition of a majority interest in the Fotona Group, a leading medical laser focused EBD company 
• Hg and Vista Equity Partners on the sale of Allocate, a leading workforce and people management software-as-a-service provider, to RLDatix
• TDR Capital on the c. £563 million recommended offer for Arrow Global Group plc 
• Leif Höegh & Co. Ltd. and funds managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners through a 50/50 joint venture vehicle to acquire the shares in Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd
• Inflexion on its re-investment in the British Engineering Services Group, a specialist in engineering testing, inspection and consultancy services 
• Allied Universal on the financing for a recommended £3.8 billion cash offer for G4S 
• Vitruvian Partners on its sale of Unifaun, a cloud delivery orchestration platform serving the European logistics ecosystem, to Marlin Equity Partners
• A consortium comprising TDR Capital, Goldman Sachs, PGGM, ATP, GIC and ADIA on the €3.7 billion acquisition of LeasePlan from Volkswagen and Fleet Investments
• TDR Capital on numerous matters including its acquisitions of EFR, Hurtigruten, IMO Group, David Lloyd Leisure, the Lowell Group and Stonegate; its investment into Euro Garages, valuing the business at £1.3 billion; and its disposals of the Lowell Group and VPS Europe
• Brait on the £1.9 billion acquisition of New Look
• The Carlyle Group on its minority investment in CEPSA valuing the business at $12 billion
• BC Partners and Pollen Street Capital on the £868m public takeover of Shawbrook Bank
• BC Partners on their acquisition of VetPartners
• Jacobs Holding on the acquisition of Cognita from Bregal Investments and KKR
• Hg Saturn and the consortium on the £1.3 billion buyout of IRIS Software Group
• Hg on its strategic investment in the Access Group, valuing the group at an enterprise value of approximately £1 billion
• CDPQ on its $400 million investment in Hyperion Insurance Group
• Cerberus:
  • on the £4 billion TPMF 2019-Granite4 UK RMBS
  • on the acquisition financings for GE Money Bank in France
  • on its acquisition of the £13 billion UK residential mortgage loan and consumer credit book of Northern Rock, the largest financial asset sale by a European government
• Davidson Kempner on the first non-bank NPL securitisation in Portugal
• Centerbridge in connection with its acquisition and financing of a portfolio of approximately £540 million UK credit card accounts and receivables from Bank of Ireland (UK) Plc
• IFM Investors:
  • on the disposal of its 40% stake in 50 Hertz Transmission, the German electricity transmission business
  • on its acquisition of a strategic stake in Manchester Airport Group (MAG) and the subsequent successful bid by MAG for London Stansted Airport
• AIMCo on its acquisition of a majority stake in Eolia Renovables, a Spanish renewable energy company, from Oaktree Capital
• OTPP on its acquisition of the Memora funeral business
• Allianz, AIMCo, Hastings Funds Management and EdF Invest on their successful consortium bid for Porterbrook Trains, a UK rolling stock leasing company

Linklaters LLP, 2011–2019

Weil Gotshall & Manges, 2009–2011