Kirkland & Ellis ranked first for European buyouts by value and by deal count; and ranked first for European M&A by value in H1 2019, according to the latest legal advisor league tables released by Mergermarket.
Kirkland advised on over 20 European sponsor backed buyouts in a busy first six months of the year valued at over $30 billion.
Kirkland also topped the European M&A league tables by value, advising on 78 deals valued at over $160 billion.
Kirkland European rankings in the H1 Mergermarket tables include:
#1 – Europe buyouts by value
#1 – Europe buyouts by deal count
#1 – Europe buyouts + exits by deal count
#1 – Europe buyouts + exits by
value
#1 – Europe M&A by value
These included a number of landmark public to private transactions for financial sponsors in France, Germany, Spain and UK, including:
Advising on Apax, Warburg Pincus, CPPIB and OTPP's
recommended $3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat plc.
Advising on Blackstone, Kirkbi and CPPIB's recommended
£4.77 billion take private of Merlin Entertainments
plc.
Advising on EP Global Commerce's €6 billion voluntary
public takeover offer for METRO AG.
Advising on Searchlight's €400m voluntary public takeover
offer for Latécoère SA.
Advising on KKR's €600m takeover offer for TelePizza Group
SA.
Selected H1 2019 European private deals on which our London, Munich and Paris teams also advised include:
Advising on EQT's consortium CHF 10.2 billion acquisition of
Nestlé Skin Health. Advising on GLP's $18.7 billion
disposal of its U.S. logistics business to Blackstone.
Advising on Lone Star Funds' acquisition of Saint-Gobain's
German materials business.
Advising on BC Partners acquisition of Synthon International
Holding.
Advising on Thomas H. Lee Partners' €1.6 billion
acquisition of AutoStore.
Advising on GS PIA's £1.9 billion acquisition of the
B&B Hotels chain.
Advising on GIC's $1 billion acquisition of Equinix Inc's
pan European hyperscale data centre business.