Annette Baillie

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPP Investments”) and Motive Partners on the US$1.4 billion new equity investment in FNZ, a global wealth management platform. One of the largest ever primary capital raises in the wealth management sector, the transaction values FNZ at over US$20 billion. The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Carlos Gil Rivas, Annette Baillie and David Higgins and associates Victoria Legg, Andrew Mon, Jamie Manson and Tom Lawless; debt finance partners Daniel Borg and Leon Daoud; tax partners Sam Trowbridge, Mavnick Nerwal and Sara Zablotney and associate Ted Meddick-Dyson; financial services regulatory partner Reva Raghavan and associate Chris Walker; antitrust partner Matthew Sinclair-Thomson; technology IP and transactions partner Jenny Wilson and associate Alex Zapalowski and ESG partner Ruth Knox and associate Matteo Minuti.

Feb 14

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPP Investments”) on its investment in Universal Investment. Universal Investment, a portfolio company of Montagu, is the leading independent provider of third-party management company and fund administration services in Germany and Luxembourg, servicing institutional investors and fund initiators. Read CPP Investments’ press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Annette Baillie, David Higgins, Sebastian Haefele and David Huthmacher and associates Claire Rushton, Andrew Mon, Yoana Georgieva and Tamara Zehentbauer; financial services regulatory partner Reva Raghavan; tax partners Peter Abbott and Mavnick Nerwal; and antitrust partner Thomas Wilson.

Sep 9

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP), alongside Blackstone (NYSE: BX), on the plan to create a major new centre for film, TV and digital production in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Funds managed by Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Hudson Pacific Properties acquired a 91-acre site, 17 miles north of central London, through a joint venture for £120 million. The acquisition, with an expected total investment of over £700 million, will be the partners’ first expansion of their Sunset Studios platform outside of the US. The proposed development, which is subject to planning permission, would transform the site into one of the largest world-class film and television studio campuses. The project is expected to create over 4,500 permanent jobs for Broxbourne and the surrounding community and contribute more than £300 million annually into the local economy. Read Hudson Pacific Properties' press release Kirkland fielded a multi-jurisdictional team led by London corporate partner Annette Baillie and associate Irfan Ahmed and Los Angeles real estate partner Al Stemp. The team also included London technology & IP transactions partner Joanna Thomson and associate Alex Zapalowski.

Aug 4

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), a professional investment management organization, as an investor in Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD), a leading global provider of sports betting and sports entertainment products and services, in connection with Sportradar’s initial public offering of 19,000,000 Class A ordinary shares at a price to the public of $27 per share. The shares are trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “SRAD.” Read the Sportradar press release The Kirkland team was led by capital markets partner Joshua Korff and corporate partners David Higgins and Annette Baillie.

Sep 20

1 min