Mavnick is a corporate tax partner in the London office. He specialises in advising on public and private M&A transactions, reorganisations and reconstructions and corporate finance. Mav has a particular focus on both UK and international private equity and credit tax structuring.
Experience
Representative Matters
Representative matters including some prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis include advising:
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 €3.7bn 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 £1.3bn; and its disposals of the Lowell Group and VPS Europe
Brait on the £1.9bn acquisition of New Look
The Carlyle Group on its minority investment in CEPSA valuing the business at $12bn
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 £1.3bn 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 $400m investment in Hyperion Insurance Group
Cerberus:
on the £4bn TPMF 2019-Granite4 UK RMBS
on the acquisition financings for GE Money Bank in France
on its acquisition of the £13bn 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 £540m 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
Prior Experience
Linklaters LLP, 2011–2019
Weil Gotshall & Manges, 2009–2011
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2008, Admitted to Practice as a Solicitor of England & Wales