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Private Equity

Private Equity

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Today's private equity investors face an intensely competitive landscape. You must rely on increasingly innovative financing solutions to carry out transactions. But political and financial turmoil can cause financing, regulatory or political hurdles that challenge the completion of deals.

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Whether you are a buyout fund, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel or institutional investor, you require fast, reliable access to multidisciplinary advisors to guide you through the legal and structural issues of a transaction. Through an integrated global delivery of our legal and tax services, we anticipate and respond to your needs wherever and whenever you need us.

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Experience

Advent International: Advising on the acquisition of a 30% interest in LifeMiles BV, an independent subsidiary of Avianca Holdings, S.A. and one of the largest and fastest-growing loyalty coalition programs in Latin America.
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM): Advising on its investment in IHS Holdings Limited, Africa’s leading mobile infrastructure company and the largest owner of mobile telecoms towers across the continent.
Blackstone: Advising on its €1 billion acquisition of the Acetow business from Solvay.
Blackstone: Advising Blackstone and it portfolio Schenck Process Group of companies with respect to the acquisition of the Raymond Bartlett Snow business comprised of the stock of Arvos Raymond Bartlett Snow Holding, LLC, the stock of Arvos Brazil Equipamentons Ltda., and the assets of Arvos Energy Indi Private Limited from the ARVOS Group, a portfolio of the Triton Private Equity Group.
Bridgepoint: Advising on the acquisition of Turkish branded dried fruit and snacks producer Peyman.
Bridgepoint: Advising on the acquisition of Dr. Gerard, a producer of branded and private label biscuits in Poland, from Groupe Poult of France, for an undisclosed amount.
IK Investment Partners: Advising on the sale of part of the Agros Nova Group, a manufacturer of branded fruit and vegetable products, to Maspex, the leading food and beverage group in Central and Eastern Europe.
Indorama Group: Advising on its co-investment in the establishment of Petrobras Oil & Gas BV, a US$3 billion joint venture for oil and gas exploration and production in Africa, alongside funds managed by Helios, Banco BTG Pactual and Petrobras for which Dentons won "Adviser of the Year", at the Private Equity Africa Awards.
KKR: Advising KKR-backed Calsonic Kansei on its acquisition of Magneti Marelli S.p.A., the automotive components business of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.
KKR: Advising on the €6.825 billion acquisition of the Unilever Spreads business. This deal has been awarded ‘Deal of the Year’ at the 2018 The Deal Awards Europe.
KSL Capital Partners: Advising the US private equity firm on the acquisition of the entire business and assets of the Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin portfolio from MWB Hotel Holdings (which went into liquidation) and RBSM.
LBO France: Advising on the acquisition of two French companies, SENI and La Providence, which specialize in industrial cleaning and security.
PineBridge Investments: Advising in connection with the €180 million investment by Advent International, PineBridge and other investors in Integer.pl S.A., a Polish operator of a network of automated parcel machines and courier services.
Summit Partners: Advising on the equity investment in a molecular biology company headquartered in Canada with operations in Eastern Europe. This was Summit Partner’s first investment in Canada.
Spire Capital: Representing portfolio company Velocity Technology Solutions, a leading cloud-based application hosting company, in a merger with a subsidiary of Silver Lake Sumeru Fund, LP in a transaction valued at US$220 million.

Recognition

Dentons places in top 10 in major categories of PitchBook’s Global League Table Rankings

June 5, 2019

PitchBook’s Q1 2019 Global League Table Rankings have been released, and for the first quarter of 2019 reporting period we placed in the top 10 in all major categories.

KKR deal wins European Private Equity Deal of the Year at The Deal Awards Europe 2018

November 7, 2018

KKR's €6.825 billion acquisition of Unilever's spreads business has won European Private Equity Deal of the Year at The Deal Awards Europe 2018. The award went to KKR, Dentons and the other advisory teams involved.

Over 120 Dentons lawyers ranked in Chambers UK 2018

November 7, 2017

Dentons is pleased to announce that 122 of its lawyers have been recognised by Chambers & Partners in the Chambers UK 2018 guide. The Firm's UK lawyers are ranked as notable practitioners across more than 50 areas spanning Banking and Finance, Corporate, Litigation, Real Estate, Energy, Transport, Employment, Competition, TMT and more.

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Insights

OFAC amends Cuba sanctions to limit remittances and prohibit U-turns

September 16, 2019

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has implemented new restrictions on remittances and banking U-turns involving Cuba, to further implement President Donald Trump’s 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum on Cuba. The new regulations tighten longstanding US sanctions but also create a new authority permitting remittances to “self-employed individuals” in Cuba.

Supreme Court finds that offending words can be severed from non-compete restrictive covenants

August 27, 2019

The Supreme Court has considered the law on severance of restrictive covenants, and further developed the test to allow unreasonably wide words to be severed where this would not generate any major change in the overall effect of the covenants.

UK Corporate Briefing

Summer 2019

Welcome to the summer 2019 edition of Dentons' UK Corporate Briefing. With little activity on the domestic legislative front, this briefing spotlights the recent changes to the prospectus regime and cases relevant to directors' duties and M&A transactions.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises digital health start-up Kaia on further financing round

October 7, 2019

Global law firm Dentons advised digital health start-up Kaia on its further financing round. The lead investor is Optum Ventures, which is part of the US insurance group United Health and currently manages over US$600 million.

Dentons further strengthens its global corporate energy and infrastructure capabilities with partner hire in London

September 30, 2019

Dentons has continued to strengthen its Corporate team in London with the hire of M&A and private equity specialist Paul Doris. Paul was most recently a partner in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's London office.

Dentons advises Sparring Capital on its investment in Nalys group

September 9, 2019

Global law firm Dentons advised French private equity firm Sparring Capital on its acquisition of a majority stake in Nalys, an independent engineering consulting firm in Belgium. Sparring's investment will help finance the restructuring and further development of the group following the departure of two of Nalys’ three original founders.

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