Dipak Bhundia

Consortium of CVC Private Equity Funds, Nordic Capital and ADIA on the £5.4 billion recommended cash acquisition of Hargreaves Lansdown

EP Group on its possible offer for International Distribution Services

Starwood Capital Group on its strategic investment in Echelon Data Centres

Trive Capital Partners on the recommended cash offer for Ten Entertainment Group

QuadReal on its investment in, and joint venture with, Precede Capital Partners

EQT led consortium on the £4.5 billion recommended cash offer of Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC

Coller Capital on the strategic minority investment from Hunter Point Capital

K1 Investment Management on the UK aspects of the take-private of Australia-based Elmo Software for AUD$500 million

Oaktree on the $150 million strategic partnership with Draslovka 

TPG Real Estate on its strategic joint venture with Gatehouse Bank

Smarsh Inc. on the $375 million acquisition of Digital Safe from Micro Focus 

Blackstone and the consortium consisting of Scape Living and iQSA on the £969 million recommended cash offer for GCP Student Living plc 

Blackstone on the c. £1.2 billion recommended cash offer for St Modwen Properties plc

TDR Capital on the c. £563 million recommended offer for Arrow Global Group plc 

Blackstone and Brown Bidco Limited on the $4.73 billion recommended take private of Signature Aviation, the world’s largest fixed base operation network for business & general aviation travellers 

MRI Software on the recommended cash acquisition of Castleton Technology PLC

Tokio Marine HCC on its acquisition of GCube

Blackstone on the £4.66 billion acquisition of iQ Student Accommodation

TDR Capital and its portfolio company, Stonegate Pub Company, on the £1.27 billion recommended cash offer for Ei Group

TPG on its c. €300 million acquisition of Spanish Real Estate Investment Trust, Témpore Properties

TPG on the joint venture acquisition with Round Hill Capital of a student and residential housing platform in Lisbon, Portugal

Blackstone on the recommended £4.77 billion cash offer for Merlin Entertainments, a global leader in location-based, family entertainment

Summit Partners on the sale of approximately 52.5 million shares in cyber security company Avast plc

Rowan Companies plc in its $12 billion combination with Ensco plc in an all-stock transaction

Acciona Energia on the UK law aspects of the EUR962m acquisition of its assets by Contour Global

EMR Capital in relation to its consortium arrangements with PT Adaro Energy Tbk and the consortium’s acquisition of Rio Tinto’s 80% interest in the Kestrel coking coal mine for total cash consideration of US$2.25 billion

Blackstone on its successful public takeover bid of Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios SOCIMI SA (Hispania), a Spanish property company listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange, in a deal that values the company at over €3 billion, and the prior stake-building acquisition of 16.56% of Hispania from Soros Fund Management

Blackstone on its €260m recommended cash acquisition of Taliesin Property Fund Limited to be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement, the first acquisition by Blackstone’s newly formed pan-European Core+ unit

Apax Partners and its subsidiary Pentagon Lock on the sale of approximately 51 million shares in cyber security company Sophos Group plc

Bain Capital Private Equity in respect of the initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange of its portfolio company, TI Fluid Systems plc

Accel-KKR on its acquisition of Smart Communications

Summit Partners LLP on its co-investment, alongside Bridgepoint SAS, in Calypso Technology, Inc.

Great Hill Partners on its acquisition of Reward Gateway

HGGC on its sale of Serena Software

S C Johnson & Son Inc. on its acquisition of DEB Group

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