Melissa Sawyer

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Interogo Holding, a foundation-owned investment group, on its acquisition of a 12.25% minority investment in Q-Park N.V., a European parking infrastructure owner and operator, from the company's existing shareholders, including investment firm KKR, which will remain the majority shareholder. Read Interogo Holding’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Toby Parkinson and Serra Tar and associates Melissa Sawyer, Claudia Carr, Nikhil Mohindra and Shaun Boyle; and antitrust & competition partner Alasdair Balfour.

Aug 13

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising KKR on an agreement under which KKR will acquire a 25% stake in Enilive, Eni’s mobility transformation company dedicated to biorefining, biomethane production, smart mobility solutions and providing services to support people on the move. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Enilive aims to provide progressively decarbonized services and products in support of a sustainability-driven mobility transformation. Read KKR’s press release The Kirkland team includes corporate lawyers Toby Parkinson, Sara Pickersgill, Nick Appleton, Serra Tar, Claudia Carr, Melissa Sawyer and Shaun Boyle and debt finance lawyers Sinead O'Shea, James Boswell, Jia Meng, Luca Misseroni, James McGivern, Marco Convertini and Hannah McLaughlin.

Oct 24

1 min

Danaher Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Masimo Corp. in a deal valued at about $9.9 billion, including debt, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP advising Danaher and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and White & Case LLP representing Masimo. Under the agreement, Danaher will pay $180 per share in cash for all outstanding common stock of Masimo, a specialty diagnostics company, according to announcements from the companies on Tuesday. After closing, Masimo is expected to operate as a standalone company within Danaher's diagnostics segment alongside units such as Radiometer, Leica Biosystems, Cepheid, and Beckman Coulter Diagnostics. Danaher CEO and President Rainer M. Blair said Masimo's pulse oximetry and patient monitoring technologies are strategic fits for the company and will strengthen its diagnostics segment. Pulse oximetry measures blood oxygen. "With the Danaher Business System and our global scale, we see opportunities to expand Masimo's reach and continue improving outcomes for patients, particularly those in acute care settings," Blair said in a Tuesday statement. Katie Szyman, CEO of Masimo, said the company looks forward to "continuing our growth and momentum as the global leader in patient monitoring," adding that "Danaher shares our commitment to investing in talent and innovation and will be an ideal fit." She said the backing of Danaher's diagnostics segment will bolster Masimo's ability to "scale our monitoring technologies globally." The transaction is expected to close in the second half of the year, subject to regulatory approvals and Masimo shareholder consents, the companies said. Danaher said it plans to fund the acquisition through a combination of cash on hand and debt financing. Danaher, based in Washington, D.C., is a global life sciences and diagnostics company with 60,000 employees worldwide. Irvine, California-based Masimo specializes in noninvasive monitoring technologies, including pulse oximetry widely used in acute care settings. The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners David Klein, Brian Junquera, and Daniel Wolf. The Sullivan & Cromwell team is led by corporate partners Melissa Sawyer and Lauren S. Boehmke. White & Case's deal team information was not immediately available Tuesday.

Feb 17

2 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Nordic Capital on entering into an agreement to sell Sunrise Medical, a specialist in assistive mobility solutions, to global investment firm Platinum Equity. Completion of the transaction is expected in Q3 2024 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Read Nordic Capital’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners David Higgins, Keir MacLennan and Victoria Legg and associates Melissa Sawyer, Christopher Weale, Ben Zelouf and Talodabioluwa Olu-Odugbemi; debt finance partner Evgeny Zborovsky; tax partner Peter Abbott and associate Hugo Coleman; and antitrust partner Thomas Wilson and associate Alexandre Rouhette.

Jun 5

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Strategic Value Partners and its portfolio company Pfleiderer Group on its sale to Bogdan and Elżbieta Kaczmarek together with Innova Capital, through an investment vehicle Breticontic Investments. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024, subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals as well as other customary closing conditions. Read Innova Capital’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Tom Bartram and Jack Donelan and associate Melissa Sawyer, together with support from corporate partner Sebastian Häfele and associate Christina Albath; antitrust & competition partners Mark Gardner and Sion Davies; tax partners Mavnick Nerwal and Frixos Hatjantonas and associate Michael Akpomiemie; and debt finance partners Sam Sherwood, Jerome Hoyle and Alexander Längsfeld and associate Kirstin Kemper.

Jan 12

1 min