Alvaro Membrillera

Kirkland & Ellis represented Grupo Antolin, a global supplier of automobile interior components, in connection with its offering of €250 million of senior secured notes due 2030 and the amendment and extension of its €515 million senior term and revolving facilities. The proceeds from the notes issuance were used to redeem Antolin’s outstanding €250 million senior secured notes due 2026. Read Antolin’s press release The Kirkland team included capital markets partner Marwa Elborai and associates Will Taylor, AJ Brown and Georg Lorenz; debt finance partners Vanessa Xu and Sherry Khalili and associate Emma Shi; tax partners Mike Carew and James Seddon and associates Cosmos Fung and Grace Bridwell; with support from corporate partner Alvaro Membrillera.

Aug 6

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 is advising Telemach Slovenia, a subsidiary of United Group and a portfolio company of BC Partners, on the signing of a share purchase agreement with Garnol for the acquisition of business shares in T-2, securing at least 98.06% ownership in the company. The transaction will be completed upon receiving the necessary approvals. Through this transaction, Telemach Slovenia will initially acquire a non-controlling stake of 24.9% of T-2’s equity. After obtaining approval from the relevant regulators, Telemach Slovenia is set to acquire at least 98.06% of the shares in T-2 as per the terms of the signed share purchase agreement. Read United Group’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Alvaro Membrillera, Tom Bartram and Monica Gemes and associates Athena Chuang, Stefano Castoldi and Jef Dupont; debt finance partner Kirsteen Nicol; and antitrust & competition partner Alasdair Balfour.

Aug 15

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