Our Private Equity experience across the EMEA region includes advising:

• Tattarang Group, one of Australia’s largest private investment firms, owned by Andrew and Nicola Forrest, on its acquisition of R.M. Williams, an Australian footwear and clothing company from L Catterton, the largest consumer-focussed private equity firm in the world;
• leading UK-based private equity firm GSH Capital on the pre-pack acquisition of Amsterdam-headquartered global IT services business, Getronics, which provides a full suite of ICT services for many global brands and organizations. This deal is significant as GSH Private Capital’s first transaction in the IT sector and its first in the Netherlands;
• Fosun International Limited, one of the world’s family-focussed multinational companies, in relation to the acquisition of a majority interest in Tenax Capital, a boutique private equity company headquartered in London. Tenax will become one of Fosun's most important European asset management platforms, providing European and global investors new and innovative investment solutions and access to China's fast-growing financial markets;
• Clearbell Capital LLP, a private equity real estate fund management business, on its indirect disposal of a portfolio of 23 logistics assets for £120 million;
• CERF S.à.r.l., a member of the group of entities doing business as The Carlyle Group on the acquisition of senior housing developer, Beechcroft Group from a fund managed by Alchemy Partners and the company’s senior management team. The transaction is backed by investment from Carlyle Europe Realty, a €540 million pan-European real estate fund;
• a specialist healthcare private equity investor on its acquisition by way of share purchase of the holding company of a UK-based diagnostics, treatment and fitness facility used by Premiership football clubs and other sports teams; and
• a London-based private equity firm on its acquisition of a payments company, operating a network of retail and service-sector payment terminals. 

Our Private Equity experience across the US includes advising:

• a Denver-based private equity firm on numerous portfolio investments in the retail, transportation, agribusiness and energy services sectors;
• a private equity fund focused on investments in early-stage health and wellness brands, on several investments into food, beverage and candy manufacturers;
• a fundless sponsor on the sale of several platform companies in the consumer products, construction and interiors sectors;
• the affiliates of a New York-based leading global private equity firm with global locations, focused on growth investing in 11 completed or pending acquisitions since 2016. Seven of these were in the health care services or health care IT space;
• a large Canadian-based family office on the acquisition and disposition of numerous companies in the restaurant industry; and
• an upscale grocery chain, the platform company of a private equity firm focused on the middle-market, on its sale to one of the largest food retailers in the U.S.