Anthony Antioch

Restructuring

• Creditors, debtors and shareholders on a number of debt restructurings and insolvencies, including Altera Infrastructure, Bartec, Bulsatcom, Casual Dining Group, Celsius Network, China Fishery Group, Debenhams, General Healthcare Group, Lebara, Lehman Brothers, McDermott, Mothercare, Noble, PizzaExpress, Seadrill Partners, Selecta, Steinhoff, Technicolor and Venator

Corporate

• The consortium of Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the $7.3 billion sale of Inmarsat, a UK telecommunications group, to Viasat
• Bain Capital on a number of transactions, including the €3 billion acquisition of Fedrigoni in partnership with BC Partners and the €3.4 billion joint takeover offer with Carlyle for Osram
• BC Partners on a number of transactions, including its investment in Valtech, giving the digital services group a $1.4 billion value, and its sale of Elysium Healthcare to Ramsay Health Care
• Blackstone on a number of transactions, including its acquisition of VFS Global, its £4.77 billion takeover of Merlin Entertainments, the £1.46 billion privatisation of Network Rail’s commercial real estate portfolio, its €492 million acquisition of Industrial Securities Europe’s logistics real estate portfolio, the $4.73 billion takeover of Signature Aviation, the acquisition of NGA Human Resources by Alight Solutions and the acquisition of Moonbug Entertainment by Candle Media
• Brookfield Asset Management on a number of transactions, including its bid for the £4+ billion iQ student accommodation portfolio and its $360 million acquisition of Everise from Everstone
• CPP Investments and its consortium partners on the acquisition of Galileo Global Education
• Francisco Partners on the €150 million capital raise and €250 million minority stake sale in EG
• Genius Sports Group on its $1.5 billion de-SPAC combination with dMY Technology Group II and its subsequent offer to exercise and consent solicitation to eliminate all of its public warrants
• GTCR on a number of transactions, including its $2.1 billion acquisition of Wells Fargo Asset Management in partnership with Reverence Capital Partners, its acquisition of 55% of Worldpay which valued the business at $18.5 billion, the $800 million acquisition of Surgical Specialties Corporation by Corza Health, the €350 million carve-out acquisition of TachoSil by Corza Health from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and the acquisition of Medelec by Resonetics
• HGGC on its sale of Selligent, a B2C marketing technology group headquartered in Belgium
• Montagu Private Equity on its carve-out acquisition of ESS and the merger with ParentPay
• Peak Rock Capital on its acquisition of AMB, a film packaging group headquartered in Italy
• Riskonnect, backed by TA Associates and Thoma Bravo, on the acquisition of Sword GRC
• Sani/Ikos Group on its strategic partnership with GIC, valuing the business at €2.3 billion
• Summit Partners on its growth equity investments in Akeneo, LearnUpon and Red Points
• Sun Capital Partners and Sun European Partners on a number of transactions, including the acquisition of Adler & Allan from LDC and the $475 million sale of Dreams to Tempur Sealy
• TA Associates on the acquisition of Abaca Systems by its portfolio company Advantive
• TDR Capital on a number of transactions, including matters relating to its investments in Buffalo Grill, David Lloyd Leisure, EG Group, Keepmoat Homes, NKD Group and Stonegate
• Thoma Bravo on the takeover of EQS Group, a compliance software group headquartered in Germany, and on the investment in Logex, a healthcare data group headquartered in the Netherlands, which was the inaugural investment by Thoma Bravo’s Europe-based team
• Thomas H. Lee Partners on its acquisition of Bynder, a digital asset management group
• TPG Capital on its €330 million acquisition of the majority of the Témpore Properties REIT
• Vista Equity Partners on a number of transactions, including the acquisition of Miles 33 by Naviga, the combination of FWI and Poppulo and the sale of Allocate alongside Hg Capital
• Warburg Pincus on its sale of Accelya, a travel technology group headquartered in Spain

Finance

• The consortium of Advent, Cinven and the RAG-Stiftung on the financing of the €17.2 billion acquisition of Thyssenkrupp Elevator, one of the largest ever European leveraged buyouts
• Advent on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of IRCA and Industria Chimica Emiliana (ICE) and the acquisition of New Zealand Pharmaceuticals by ICE
• Bain Capital on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisition of majority stakes in House of HR and Maesa and its investment in the Serie A football club Atalanta BC
• BC Partners on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisition of majority stakes in Davies Group and Havea Group and the acquisition of Wind Hellas by United Group
• Blackstone on the financing of a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of Bourne Leisure, Huws Gray and the NEC Group and the refinancing of a central London office property
• Brookfield Asset Management on the financing of its acquisition of a portfolio of UK retail parks
• GLP on the financing of a number of transactions, including more than €2 billion of real estate acquisitions across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and other countries

Funds

• Alvarez & Marsal Capital, Blackstone Strategic Partners, Chorus Capital, IK Partners, Summit Partners, TDR Capital, Triton Partners and other sponsors on fund-level matters, including fundraisings, carried interest and co-investment planning, secondaries and fund finance

Linklaters LLP, London & Moscow, 2015–2018