Overview
Catherine has been elected Partner in May 2024 in our Luxembourg corporate practice.
She has in-depth knowledge of corporate law and advises international investors, private equity houses and other financial sponsor clients in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, co-investments, joint ventures, corporate restructurings along with management incentive schemes and governance matters.
Since joining Linklaters in July 2012, Catherine spent several months in our capital markets and banking department as well as in the investment funds group, where she enriched the team with her experience in the areas of infrastructure and private equity funds. In 2023 she was seconded for 6 months to our London private equity and financial sponsors group.
Catherine has built her career at Linklaters and alongside her many professional achievements she was a participant in the firm’s woman's leadership programme. She is committed to helping support and promote women throughout the firm.
Experience
Catherine has acted for and advised, among others:
- Advising ARDIAN on a range of complex cross-border transactions across multiple sectors, including:
- Syndication of minority and majority stakes in leading companies such as GreenYellow (energy transition, France), ASTM (motorway concessions, Italy), LBC Tank Terminals (logistics solutions, Belgium), Ascendi Group (motorway network, Portugal).
- Creation and follow-on expansion of Ardian’s investment in the Clermont platform, a Canadian joint venture formed with Indigo Group to invest in parking assets.
- Structuring, internal financing and subsequent syndications in connection with the 100% acquisition of CampusParc Management Inc., the concessionaire of Ohio State University's parking system.
- Advising on the acquisition and financing structure for an ownership position in Aviation Facilities Company Management, LLC (AFCO), a leading independent operator of on-airport cargo facilities and airport infrastructure in the United States.
- Carlyle Group: advising on its €250m preferred equity investment in Sanoptis, a European ophthalmology services leader, to support strategic growth and technological innovation across more than 450 locations.
- Waystone: advising on the acquisition of BIL Manage Invest from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, a strategic move to expand Waystone’s Luxembourg footprint and reinforce its position as Europe’s fastest-growing third-party ManCo.
- The world's largest food and beverage company: advising on a multi-jurisdictional group restructuring to establish a new Luxembourg holding platform for non-controlling participations in several operating companies, including the transfer of shareholdings, issuance and contribution of instruments, and the implementation of a bespoke Luxembourg law-governed shareholders’ agreement.
- A major pension fund: advising on its acquisition of a 50% stake in a European industrial and logistics portfolio (circa 730,000 square metres across 76 assets in key 'last mile' locations in the UK, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain), held through Luxembourg joint venture vehicles.
- Centerbridge Partners, L.P.: advising on a partial exit from Phoenix Holdings, completed through a series of block trade sales to various leading international institutional investors.
- A global alternative investment fund: advising on the acquisition of a leading real estate solutions provider, formerly a subsidiary of a listed European bank, by a consortium of private equity and institutional investors.
- Antin Infrastructure Partners: advising on the formation of a joint venture with Scandinavian Enviro Systems supported by Michelin for the large-scale recycling of tires.
- A joint venture of Advent International Corporation, Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and other financial investors: advising on the setting up of the joint venture carrying out a successful voluntary public takeover offer to acquire approx. 90% of the share capital and voting rights of Aareal Bank AG and subsequent delisting, including the squeeze-out of minority shareholders, co-investment arrangements, and major post-closing dividend distributions.
- Centerbridge: advising on the sale of its majority interests in APCOA Parking Holdings.
- Triton: advising on (i) the sale of the portfolio companies Assemblin, EQOS Energie, Flokk and Unica by Triton Fund IV to Triton IV Continuation Fund (ii) the acquisition of RENK GmbH and its subsidiaries, as well as the partial divestment from the RENK group by Triton and management through a private placement.
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