Lucy Bower

Kirkland & Ellis counseled Energize Capital, a leading investor in climate solutions, on its lead Series B funding in Elum Energy, a leading provider of advanced energy management solutions for renewable energy systems. This investment will support the company's ambitious growth plans to address the booming global renewable market, including a U.S. launch, as well as product evolution within the energy storage and electric vehicle integration categories. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Ari Levi and Vincent Ponsonnaille and associate Lucy Bower; and investment funds partner Jon Lipnick.

Sep 23

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Wendel on entering exclusive negotiations with the intent to acquire the Scalian Group from Cobepa. Scalian Group is a leading European consulting firm in digital transformation, project management and operational performance. Read Wendel’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Vincent Ponsonnaille and Emmanuel Enrici and associate Lucy Bower; tax partner Nadine Gelli and associate Louise Chappey; and antitrust partners Thomas Wilson and Philipp Gnatzy and associate Fiona Constant-Lotz.

Apr 18

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising co-controlling shareholders WP GG Holdings IV B.V., an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, and ARCHIMED on the sale of Polyplus for approximately €2.4 billion to Sartorius, a life science group. Polyplus was initially acquired by ARCHIMED in 2016, which sold half of its stake to Warburg Pincus in 2020. Polyplus is a global provider of upstream bioprocessing solutions, including transfection reagents and DNA plasmids, which are critical inputs used in the manufacturing of cell and gene therapies. Kirkland advised Warburg Pincus and Dechert advised ARCHIMED on the 2020 acquisition. Read Sartorius’ press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Laurent Victor-Michel and Adrian Maguire and associates Guillaume Nivault, Etienne Vautier, Luke Forryan, Nikhil Mohindra and Lucy Bower; antitrust partners Marin Boney and Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and associate Miata Eggerly; and tax partners Nadine Gelli, Peter Abbott and Sonia Bouaffassa and associate Maria Clezy.

Apr 3

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advises MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., a supplier of semiconductor products, on its acquisition of the key manufacturing facilities, capabilities and technologies of OMMIC SAS. Going forward, the facility, which is located near Paris in Limeil-Brévannes, France, will become the foundation for MACOM’s newly established European Semiconductor Center. Read MACOM’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partner Laurent Victor-Michel and associates Lucy Bower and Amanda Levi-Acobas; tax partner Nadine Gelli and associate Louise Chappey; international trade & national security partners Ivan Schlager and Daniel Gerkin; and antitrust associate Juan Donado-Diez.

Jun 5

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised PAI Partners, a private equity firm headquartered in France, in a strategic minority investment in its business by Dyal Capital, a division of Blue Owl Capital Inc. Read PAI’s press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Richard Watkins, James King and Raphaël Bloch and associates Toby Karenowski, Christopher Simpson, Courtenay Stock, Rajiv Chandrasena, Luke Redstone and Benjamin Bignier; tax partners Nadine Gelli, Jonathan Kandel, Rob Sharpe, Lee Morlock and Christopher Odell and associate Louise Chappey; and corporate partner Laurent Victor-Michel and associates François Capoul and Lucy Bower.

Jan 19

1 min