Joanna Thomson

Kirkland & Ellis is advising the Apex Group on its acquisition of Edmond de Rothschild’s third-party asset servicing activities based in Luxembourg. As part of this agreement, Apex Group will also acquire Edmond de Rothschild's fund administration, transfer agent and custody activities for its private equity and infrastructure funds. Apex Group will then become a strategic provider for Edmond de Rothschild on these activities. Transaction closing is subject to customary conditions, including regulatory approvals that are expected to be granted by mid-2024. The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Chris Connolly and David Higgins and associates Dan Sarkin, Andrea Jekkels and Oliver Small; technology & IP transactions partner Joanna Thomson and associate Samantha Bradley; and tax partner Sam Trowbridge and associate Rikesh Gandhi.

Dec 19

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of its clients, on the sale of Data4 to Brookfield Infrastructure. Data4 is a European specialist in financing, designing, building and operating its own data centres across Europe. Read AXA IM Alts’ press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Louis Gosset, Vincent Ponsonnaille, Matthew Elliott and Celyn Evans and associates François Capoul, Luke Forryan, Amanda Levi Acobas and Etienne Vautier; debt finance partner Kalish Mullen and associate Benjamin Lewis; antitrust partner Alasdair Balfour; technology & IP transactions partners Jacqueline Clover, Emma Flett and Joanna Thomson and associate Elizabeth Wauchope; and ESG & impact associate Aladdin Benali.

Apr 13

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised education company EAB on its acquisition of Hybrid, a UK-based leader in digital marketing for higher education, from private equity investor LDC. Read EAB’s press release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Stuart Boyd, Jamie Gordon, Ari Levi, Adam Diouri, Saniya Sidhu, Joaquim Gomes, Benjamin Jain and Siddharth Rai; tax lawyers Caroline Inker, Mavnick Nerwal and Bryan Leighton; debt finance lawyer Lloyd Robertson-Jones; technology & IP transactions lawyers Daisy Darvall, Emma Flett, Joanna Thomson and Shareen Dhillon; and employment & labor lawyer Colleen Mayer.

Jan 20

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising GIC, a global institutional investor, on its capital investment in Hotel Investment Partners (HIP), a leading owner of resort hotels in Southern Europe. GIC will become an approximately 35% shareholder, with funds managed by Blackstone continuing to be a majority shareholder in HIP, with approximately 65% ownership of the company. Read GIC’s Press Release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Celyn Evans and Matthew Elliott. The team included corporate partners James Hunn, Hamesh Khatkar and Claire Rushton and associates Jamie Gordon, Oliver Newling, Claudia Carr and Talodabioluwa Olu-Odugbemi; debt finance partners Kazik Michalski and Yasmin Smedley and associate Sara Topa; tax partners Mavnick Nerwal and Frixos Hatjantonas and associate Michael Akpomiemie; and technology & IP transactions partner Joanna Thomson.

Nov 2

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis represented Bain Capital Insurance on the launch of employee benefits and pensions administration services business Aptia. The new company was created through the purchase of the U.S. health and benefits administration and U.K. pension administration businesses of Marsh McLennan-owned Mercer. Aptia will manage a U.S. employee benefits administration platform serving employees and retirees and one of the largest defined benefit pension administration platforms in the U.K. The combination will serve more than 5 million individuals across more than 1,100 clients. Bain Capital Insurance is the dedicated insurance investing unit of private investment firm Bain Capital. Read Aptia’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Rajab Abbassi and Aprajita Dhundia. The team also included corporate associates George Rawlinson, Marc Holloway, Damani Ashton, Jermaine Scott Cherry, Bing Yi Lim, Andrew McAlpine and Ece Osman; insurance regulatory partner Parimah Hassouri; tax partners Alan Walker, Mike Carew and Polina Liberman and associates Maria Clezy and Michael Farrell; technology and IP transactions partners Emma Flett, Joanna Thomson and Vladimir Khodosh and associates Alex Zapalowski, Samantha Bradley, Martin Schwertmann, Derek Ventling and Amani Carter Coutinho; and executive compensation partners Scott Price and Sally Ye and associate Matthew Mutino.

Jun 28

1 min