The global nature of Linklaters' private equity practice is a reflection of the globalisation of private equity.
The world’s leading private equity houses and financial sponsors regularly rely on both our legal and commercial expertise to help them navigate complex, high-profile and cross-border transactions.
Our Private Equity practice provides timely advice on every entry and exit point of an investment, including carve-outs, private M&A, public M&A and IPOs.
By combining our specialist product knowledge and deep sector experience, we help our clients to efficiently navigate transactions and maintain a competitive advantage in a world where speed of execution is often key to success.
Working alongside our first-class funds, restructuring, finance and other specialist teams across our global network, we offer seamless advice in all situations and wherever it is our clients are looking to invest.
Experience highlights:
- Apax Partners on the €5bn sale of Unilabs, a leading pan-European provider of laboratory and imaging diagnostics services, to A.P. Moller.
- BC Partners on the £1.2bn acquisition of Davies, the leading provider of professional services and technology solutions to the global insurance market, and Davies’ add on acquisition of SCM Insurance Services, Canada’s largest claims processing and risk solutions provider.
- Brookfield on its £2.2bn recommended cash offer for Network International Holdings Plc, a leading provider of digital payment solutions in the Middle East and Africa.
- Brookfield-led consortium on its preferred equity investment in GEMS Education, a UAE-based education and ancillary services provider, in one of the largest private equity investments in the region.
- Carlyle on the £766m competitive auction sale of Calastone to SS&C Technologies, and its sale of MAK-System, a leading global healthcare software provider supporting blood and plasma management for healthcare and life sciences organisations across Europe and North America.
- Cerberus on the sale of Worldwide Flight Services to SATS for an enterprise value of approx. €2.25bn.
- GIC on its acquisition of the Sani/Ikos hotels group for approximately €2.3bn.
- Hg on the raising of significant new investment by Visma, a leading provider of mission-critical cloud software in Europe and Latin-America, valuing Visma at €19bn.
- Hg on CPP Investments’ acquisition of a c.20% stake and Sofina’s minority investment in team.blue, valuing the company at €4.8bn, making it one of the largest privately owned technology companies in Europe.
- Jacobs Capital on its acquisition of the Highvern, a funds services provider, and the subsequent combination of Highvern and Permian.
- Macquarie as part of a consortium with TA Associates and Stirling Square on the SEK 10.1bn recommended takeover of Byggfakta, a leading software and information company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
- Montagu Private Equity on its global acquisitions of Informa’s Emerging Portfolio Fund Research business and the related employee incentive plan, as well as the maritime intelligence business (commonly known as Lloyd's List Intelligence).
- Nordic Capital and Conscia on the acquisition of Open Line, a Netherlands-based cloud managed services provider active in highly regulated sectors including healthcare.
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the acquisition of DONTE GROUP alongside its management team from Advent for over €1bn.
- Permira and Warburg Pincus on the £2.7bn sale of Evelyn Partners to NatWest Group.
- Platinum Ivy (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, managed by ADIA PED), as part of a consortium with CVC Capital and Nordic Capital, on its recommended cash acquisition of UK FTSE 100 investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown plc, valuing the business at £5.4bn.
- Rhône Capital on the acquisition and combination of Invacare’s EMEA/APAC business with Direct Healthcare Group, creating a scaled international mobility and post‑acute care platform with a significantly expanded global footprint.
- TDR Capital‑led consortium on the acquisition of LeasePlan and the €4.9bn combination with ALD, Société Générale’s car leasing division.
- TDR Capital and I Squared Capital on the €1.65bn public offer for Applus Services., a testing, inspection and certification services company listed in Spain.
- TPG on its acquisition of a minority stake in Techem from majority owner Partners Group and co investors CDPQ and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, valuing the business at €6.7bn.
- Warburg Pincus on its structured minority investment in United Trust Bank, representing some of the market’s most significant and high-profile private capital investment structures within the highly regulated financial institutions sector.
- Wendel on its €625m investment in Globeducate group, one of the world’s leading international K-12 education groups.
