Overview
Jake is a Managing Associate in Linklaters’ Private Equity and Financial Sponsors team, based in London.
Jake advises private equity houses, financial sponsors and large corporates on domestic and cross-border M&A, co-investments, disposals, carve-outs, consortium and joint-venture arrangements, management investment plans, restructurings, and general corporate advisory matters, across a variety of sectors, with a particular focus on the technology, healthcare & life sciences, and financial services sectors.
Work Highlights
Jake’s work highlights include advising:
- Waystone Group (a portfolio company of Montagu and Hg) on the proposed bolt-on acquisition of BIL Manage Invest, a Luxembourg-based management company, from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
- Brookfield on its minority preferred equity investment in GEMS Education, a UAE-based education and ancillary services provider
- EXA Infrastructure (a portfolio company of I Squared Capital) on the carve-out and sale of seven edge data centre businesses across the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland, to nLighten, another I Squared portfolio company
- Telemos Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Vittoria S.p.A., a leading Italy-based manufacturer and distributor of performance bicycle tyres, from Wise Equity and management sellers
- Montagu:
- on the bolt-on acquisition of KB Associates by its portfolio company, the Waystone Group from ECI Partners and management sellers;
- on the syndication of 50% of its interest in the Waystone Group to Hg
- Kinetic and Globalvia on their c. £669 million recommended cash offer for international bus and railway operator The Go-Ahead Group plc.