Miroslav Tomo

Since joining Kirkland, Miro has advised on the following matters:

• GIC:
  
  • Alongside CPPIB and Equinix to co-invest in a $15 billion digital infrastructure platform;
  • On the £694 million acquisition of a 75% stake in the majority of Paddington Central assets from British Land;
  • On its $525 million joint venture with Equinix to develop and operate two xScale™ data centres in South Korea;
  • On its $3.9 billion additional joint ventures with Equinix to expand the xScale™ data centre programme;
  • On the over $1 billion co-investment with Equinix to develop and operate xScale™ data centres in Japan;
  • On the acquisition of a number of data centres in France and Ireland;
  • On the €950 million buyout acquisition of a pan-European logistics platform from Apollo;
  • On its €2.4 billion acquisition of P3 Logistic Park;
  • On the $1 billion acquisition of Equinix Inc’s pan European hyperscale data centre business; and
  • On the acquisition of a European real estate investment and asset management company.
• CPPIB:
  
  • On its new corporate structure of Axel Springer Group; and
  • On its minority investments in Visma.
• Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, one of the largest global hospitality companies, on its agreement to sell its European vacation rental business to Platinum Equity for approximately US$1.3 billion.
• Extreme Reach on the acquisition of Adstream, a leading global provider of digital asset management, creative logistics and analytics solutions.
• Nordic Capital on the equity and co-investment aspects of its recommended cash offer for Advanz Pharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on complex medicines in Europe.
• Carlyle International Energy Partners on its acquisition of EnerMech Group, a leading global provider of full life cycle asset integrity management solutions for energy, industrial and infrastructure applications, from Lime Rock.
• Blackstone on its successful public takeover bid of Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios SOCIMI SA (Hispania), a Spanish property company listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange, in a deal that values the company at over €3 billion, and the prior stake-building acquisition of 16.56% of Hispania from Soros Fund Management.
• Vista and its portfolio company Advanced on the acquisition of Docman, the market leading electronic document management, workflow and information sharing platform provider to primary and secondary care services.
• Pamplona Capital Management on the sale of Partner in Pet Food (‘PPF’), a market-leading European pet food company headquartered in Hungary, to Cinven.
• KKR and its portfolio company, Selecta Group, on the acquisition of Pelican Rouge Group B.V.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Miro advised on the following matters:

• HgCapital on the disposal of Zitcom Group, a leading Danish hosting and cloud solutions provider in Denmark, to Intelligent.
• HgCapital on the acquisition of Esendex, a provider of business messaging services across Europe.
• Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division on the acquisition of Caldic Chemie B.V., a full service distributor and manufacturer of chemicals for the food, health & personal care and industrial markets.