Dipak Bhundia

Kirkland & Ellis advised QuadReal Property Group on its acquisition of interest in Precede Capital Partners, alongside a commitment of up to £1 billion to deploy for its residential development loans. TowerBrook, Precede Capital’s founding institutional shareholder, retains a significant shareholding. The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Carlos Gil Rivas, Dipak Bhundia and Francesca Harris and associates Rohan Barmanray, Jack Evans, Hannah Frost, Talodabioluwa Olu-Odugbemi and Karsten Silbernagel; debt finance partner Jonathan Birks and associates George Shirlaw and Sara Topa; investment funds partner Jonathan Tadd; tax partners Mavnick Nerwal and Alan Walker and associates Ted Meddick-Dyson and Alex Piggot; and financial services regulation partners Adam Skinner and Emma Reid.

Jan 11

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising EP Corporate Group a.s. on the possible offer for the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of International Distributions Services plc (IDS) not already owned by EP Group and its affiliates, namely VESA Equity Investment S.à r.l. The proposal values the entire issued share capital of IDS at approximately £3.5 billion. Read the London Stock Exchange Announcement The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Dipak Bhundia, Jiri Peterka and David Higgins and antitrust & competition partner Matthew Sinclair-Thomson.

May 15

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising EP UK Bidco Limited, a newly formed company owned indirectly by EP Corporate Group and J&T Capital Partners, on the recommended cash offer for the entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital of International Distribution Services plc (IDS), other than the IDS shares owned or controlled by VESA Equity Investment S.à r.l. The acquisition values IDS' entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital at approximately £3,568 million on a fully diluted basis and implies an enterprise value of £5,284 million. Read the London Stock Exchange Announcement The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Dipak Bhundia, Jiri Peterka and David Higgins and antitrust & competition partner Matthew Sinclair-Thomson.

May 31

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Smarsh Inc., a global leader in electronic communications archiving solutions for regulated organisations and a portfolio company of funds managed by K1 Investment Management LLC., on the acquisition of Digital Safe archiving and risk management portfolio from Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP), for a total consideration of $375 million. Digital Safe offers users information governance and automated archiving solutions to access, govern, search, analyse and centrally manage data. Read the Smarsh press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Dipak Bhundia, Adam Phillips and Stuart Boyd and associates Jiri Peterka, Oliver Newling, Katya Boyko and Benjamin Jain; and technology & IP transactions partner Todd Herst and associate Jacqueline Clover.

Nov 4

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising a consortium led by EQT with minority investment from Luxinva (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ("ADIA") managed by the Private Equities department of ADIA), on the recommended cash offer for the entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital of Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC, proposed to be structured as a scheme of arrangement. The acquisition values Dechra's entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital at approximately £4.5bn on a fully diluted basis, and implies an enterprise value of £4.9bn. Read EQT’s transaction announcement The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Roger Johnson, Dipak Bhundia, Francesca Harris and Adrian Duncan and associates Charles Hébert, Sher Lin Wong, Luke Forryan, Oliver Weighill and Dan Sarkin; antitrust partners Sally Evans and Athina Van Melkebeke; technology & IP transactions partner John Patten and associate Elizabeth Wauchope; and tax partner Timothy Lowe and associates Maria Clezy and Rohit Pisal.

Jun 2

1 min