Vincent Ponsonnaille

While at Kirkland:

• Advent International on the negotiations to acquire Kereis
• BW Gestão de Investimentos on the €5 billion financing for its voluntary tender offer for Verallia shares
• Conti on the reinvestment in Ceva Santé Animale
• Hg on significant minority investment by Téthys Invest and GIC in Septeo Group
• Wendel on the partnership agreement and majority acquisition of Monroe Capital
• Esker on the take private by Bridgepoint, in association with General Atlantic and management shareholders
• Gallant Capital on the acquisition of Fime and its combination with UL Solutions’ payments testing business
• Keter Group on its financial restructuring
• Arctos on its partnership and investment in Paris Saint-Germain
• Searchlight Capital on a €307 million recapitalization of Latécoère
• SK Capital Partners on the $538 million sale of IPACKCHEM
• IK Partners on the sale of its controlling interest to Wendel
• HgCapital on its majority investment in Nomadia
• Wendel on the acquisition of the Scalian Group
• Nordic-Backed ArisGlobal on the acquisition of Amplexor Life Sciences
• Platinum Equity on the acquisition of HarbisonWalker International, Inc.
• Clearwater Analytics on the acquisition of JUMP Technology
• Platinum Equity on the acquisition of High Temperature Solutions Business
• Latécoère on the Acquisition of Avcorp 
• Talend, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, on the acquisition of Gamma Soft, a provider of Change Data Capture solutions 
• Partners Group on their investment alongside Montagu in connection with the acquisition of HTL Biotechnology 
• Ares on the acquisition of a majority stake in Point Vision Group from Abenex
• Antin on its €4.1 billion initial public offering on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange
• Silver Lake on the $555 million funding round to power the accelerated growth of Mirakl
• Searchlight Capital on the recapitalisation of Latécoère 
• Goldman Sachs and other shareholders of Talentsoft on the sale of Talentsoft
• Continental Grain Company on its strategic investment in Cérélia
• Schneider Electric on its joint venture with SUEZ to develop innovative digital solutions in the field of water 
• Public Investment Fund on the capital increase and associated refinancing of AccorInvest Group 
• Thoma Bravo on the $2.4 billion acquisition of Talend, a leader in data integration and data integrity
• Providence Equity Partners on the exclusive negotiations relating to the potential acquisition of a majority stake in Groupe La Centrale 
• SK Capital Partners on its agreement to acquire Ipackchem 
• 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
• West Street Capital Partners VII and other shareholders on the agreement to sell Groupe Meilleurtaux, a French financial services provider
• CPP Investments and a consortium of investors on the acquisition of Galileo Global Education, a post-secondary education group
• Continental Grain Company on its investment in Ceva Santé Animale
• Stirling Square on its sale of Siblu Villages to Naxicap
• Apollo funds on the IPO of Verallia SA on the French Stock Exchange - the largest IPO in France in 2019
• Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division on its acquisition of B&B Hotels
• Banijay Group on the financing of its acquisition of Endemol Shine Group
• Searchlight Capital on the take private acquisition of a of a majority stake in Latécoère, a French aeronautics company

Prior to joining Kirkland:

• The consortium of Partners Group and Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) on the acquisition of the Cerba Healthcare group
• BC Partners on the acquisition of the Vetpartners group, the Pronovias group (and subsequent acquisition of Nicole Spose in Italy) and the Keter group (and subsequent acquisitions of ABM Italia, of Stewart Plastic in the UK and of Adams Manufacturing in the US
• L’Oreal on the sale of the Body Shop to Natura
• Providence Private Equity Partners and its portfolio company, Galileo Global Education, on the acquisition of institutions in Italy and Cyprus from Laureate Education and on the acquisition of French education group Studialis from Bregal
• Montagu Private Equity on the acquisition of the French software company Maincare Solutions and the sale of St Hubert to the consortium consisting of Beijing Sanyuan Foods & Co. Ltd and Fosun International Limited
• Apax Partners Midmarket SAS on its acquisition of Ciprés Assurance, and the acquisition of Inseec (and subsequent acquisition of French education assets of the Laureate group)
• Apollo Global Management on its €2.95bn acquisition of Verallia and subsequent refinancing
• AXA and AXA IM on the acquisition of European data center operator Data 4 from Colony Capital
• Goldman Sachs PE on the acquisition of French insurance broker Meilleurtaux.com, French pharmaceutical group HRA in consortium with Astorg and French software company Talentsoft

Linklaters LLP

• Partner (2006–2018)
• Associate (2001–2006)