Pelin Demirdere Eski

Kirkland & Ellis is advising KKR on its acquisition of Superstruct Entertainment, a European live entertainment platform that owns and operates festivals and live music events in Europe and Australia, from Providence Equity Partners. Read KKR’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Alvaro Membrillera and Pelin Demirdere Eski and associates Jef Dupont, Sophie Thomas and Bonian Wu and debt finance partners Ian Barratt, Harriet Cottrell and Adam Shapiro and associates Philipp Engel and Alice Mackenzie.

Jun 25

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising KKR on its acquisition of majority stake in Accountor Software, a provider of mission critical business software in Finland and Sweden, from Vitruvian Partners. Financial terms of the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, were not disclosed. Read KKR’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Alvaro Membrillera and Pelin Demirdere Eski and associates Jef Dupont, Isabel Lee and Sophie Thomas; and debt finance partners Ian Barratt, Natasha Smith and Harriet Cottrell and associates Alice Mackenzie and Toni Prskalo.

Jul 22

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR portfolio company Accountor Software, a provider of cloud financial management and human capital software in the Nordics, on the equity arrangements relating to its acquisition of 24SevenOffice’s ERP software division, comprising 24SevenOffice Norway AS, 24SevenOffice Scandinavia Systems AS and 24SevenOffice Sweden AB, among others. The transaction follows KKR’s acquisition of a majority stake in Accountor Software earlier this year, which Kirkland also handled. This supports Accountor Software’s ambition to become one of the leading pure-play business software companies, serving SMEs as well as larger organisations and corporations in the Nordics. Read KKR’s press release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Alvaro Membrillera, Pelin Demirdere Eski, Jef Dupont, Ben Fuhrmann and Isabel Lee; and debt finance lawyers Ian Barratt, Natasha Smith and Toni Prskalo.

Nov 15

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is representing KKR on its acquisition of WPP’s full equity position in FGS Global (FGS), the global communications and public affairs consultancy. The proposed transaction is supported by FGS management, builds on KKR’s initial minority investment in July 2023, and values FGS at $1.7 billion. As a result of the transaction, the equity interest of FGS’s over 500 employee shareholders will be approximately 26% of the company. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Read KKR’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Alvaro Membrillera, Pelin Demirdere Eski, Adam Wollstein, Steven Choi and Anna Van de moortel and associates Bonian Wu, Oliver Weighill and Jef Dupont; debt finance partners Ian Barratt and Jia Meng and associate Aman Nath; and technology & IP transactions partner Emma Flett and associate Ben Zeris.

Aug 8

1 min