Sophie Marielle Thomas

Kirkland & Ellis is advising K1 Investment Management on its strategic growth investment in Board Intelligence, a leading board management software platform. This investment allows Board Intelligence to strengthen its category-leading position through organic growth, product and geographic expansion and strategic acquisitions. Read K1 Investment Management’s press release The Kirkland team includes corporate lawyers Aprajita Dhundia, Shaun Chung, Ben Zelouf and Sophie Thomas; debt finance lawyer Daniel Borg and Deena Smith; technology & IP transactions lawyers Max Harris and Luke Vaz; tax lawyers Rob Sharpe, Peter Abbott and Rikesh Gandhi; and antitrust & competition lawyer Joel Gory and Juan Donado Diez.

Dec 15

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised BC Partners on the sale of IMA Group, a world leader in the design and manufacture of automatic packaging machines, to BDT & MSD Partners, a merchant bank. The Vacchi family remains the majority owner of IMA Group. The transaction is expected to close in late 2023, subject to the timing of customary regulatory approvals. Read BDT & MSD Partners’ press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Tom Bartram, David Higgins and Henry Birch and associate Sophie Thomas; antitrust partners Sally Evans, Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and Shahrzad Sadjadi and associate Samantha Jones; tax partner Mavnick Nerwal and associate Rohit Pisal; capital markets partner Matthew Merkle and associate Nicolò Ascione; and debt finance partner Kanesh Balasubramaniam.

Jul 31

1 min

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 Asda Group, owned by the Issa brothers, investment funds managed by TDR Capital and Walmart, on the acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland operations for an enterprise value of c. £2.27 billion. EG Group’s UK and Ireland businesses consist of c. 350 petrol filling station sites and over 1,000 food-to-go locations. The deal will create a group with combined revenues of nearly £30 billion, serving some 21 million customers every week. Read Asda’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Stuart Boyd, Aneeq Durrani and Jessica Corr and associates Jamie Gordon, Christopher Weale, Callum Alder and Sophie Thomas and tax partners Timothy Lowe and Ed Moberly.

May 31

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