Ilan Kotkis

PRIVATE M&A

• Advised Aldersgate Investments on its £2.4 billion sale of 49% of Global Switch.
• Advised Armour Group on its acquisition of an insurance company owned by BTG Pactual.
• Advised Armour Group on its acquisition of Mitsui Sumitomo Reinsurance.
• Advised Avnet Inc on the UK aspects of its $412.5 million acquisition of Access Distribution.
• Advised Clermont Trust on its acquisition of the business of Rock Trustees.
• Advised the majority shareholder of Creed on the sale of its luxury fragrance business to BlackRock.
• Advised Daiwa Capital Markets Europe on the disposal of its prime brokerage business to Canada’s The Bank of Nova Scotia.
• Advised the shareholders of Dalma Energy in connection with its US$2.66bn merger with KCA Deutag.
• Advised Delivery Hero on its US$589 million acquisition of Yemeksepeti.
• Advised Delivery Hero on its EUR150 million acquisition of Talabat.com.
• Advised the owners of Devonshire Healthcare in connection with the sale of the company to Uniphar plc.
• Advised Emap plc on its acquisition of a significant minority interest in Next Gen Publishing Limited, a Mumbai based magazine publisher.
• Advised Fortis in relation to its proposed EUR2.15bn global asset management partnership with Ping An.
• Advised the shareholders of Geidea on their SAR600m sale of a majority stake in Geidea to Gulf Capital.
• Advised Greif on its acquisition of Blagden Packaging.
• Advised IchorCoal on its A$24.5 million investment in Universal Coal.
• Advised ING Group on the US$1.66 billion auction sale of its South Korean insurance business.
• Advised JP Morgan Asset Management on its competitive bid for Edinburgh airport.
• Advised Liberty Global on a competitive tender for the acquisition of shares in an Eastern European telecommunications cable company.
• Advised the management team of Maslow Capital in connection with the sale of the company to Arrow Global.
• Advised Metro Bank on its acquisition of SME Invoice Finance.
• Advised Micromeritics Instrument Corporation on its acquisition of Freeman Technology.
• Advised the Oman State General Reserve Fund, through a joint venture with a fund managed by The Rohatyn Group, in the US$105m acquisition of a majority interest in Nova S.A.
• Advised a private investor in connection with an investment in Twitter.

PUBLIC M&A

• Advised Malaysia’s Berjaya group on its £43.2 million cash offer for H.R. Owen and the subsequent delisting of H.R. Owen.
• Advised Britannia Building Society on its £70 billion merger with The Co-operative Banking Group.
• Advised Cable & Wireless on the fundraising aspects (via private placing) of its £329 million cash offer for Thus Group PLC.
• Advised the Co-op Bank on its proposed merger with a target building society.
• Advised IchorCoal on its A$80.9 million cash offer for Universal Coal.
• Advised JC Flowers on a proposed public offer for a listed UK plc.
• Advised TUI AG on the £5.2 billion merger of Thomson with First Choice to create Tui Travel plc.
• Advised Yorkshire Building Society on its proposed merger with Norwich & Peterborough Building Society.

PRIVATE EQUITY

• Advised Carlson Companies Inc. on the agreed disposal of its luxury Regent Seven Seas Cruises business to Apollo Management LP.
• Advised DouglasBay Capital on its £280.8 million purchase of a majority holding in Eddie Stobart Logistics.
• Advised KKR on its EUR225 million acquisition of the Cementos Balboa cement business and Papresa paper business from Spanish industrial group Grupo Alfonso Gallardo as part of a restructuring.
• Advised MxP Partners on its acquisition of Amber Taverns.
• Advised Promethean Investments on its acquisition of Sofa Brands International.
• Advised Resurgens Technology Partners in its acquisition of the business continuity management and planning software division of Sungard Availability Services, LP
• Advised an affiliate of Roark Capital Group on the acquisition of LED Hut.

JOINT VENTURES

• Advised ESO Capital in connection with the establishment of a real estate joint venture.
• Advised BAE Systems in connection with the introduction of a new party to an existing joint venture.
• Advised HBOS plc on the revival of a joint venture with a company which is the official importer into the UK of certain brands of motor vehicles.
• Advised Maslow Capital on a real estate investment joint venture with TPG.
• Advised Maslow Capital on a real estate investment joint venture with M&G.
• Advised a significant listed PLC insurer on its proposed significant joint venture in Asia.

CAPITAL MARKETS

• Advised 365 Business Finance on the equity investment made in it by Kendal Capital.
• Advised Capricorn Capital Partners on its investment in Level.
• Advised Credit Russe Financial Corporation N.V., a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) in connection with the proposed listing of its shares and warrants on AIM. CRFC was intended to serve as a cash vehicle for the acquisition of controlling interests in one or more target banks in Russia.
• Advised RBS and NatWest on its $3.2bn cash tender offer for certain outstanding securities.
• Advised Renaissance Capital in relation to its role as lead placing agent in connection with the international private placement of ordinary shares of its client, being a privately held, international oil & gas exploration and production company operating in Nigeria.
• Advised Renaissance Capital in relation to its role as placing agent in connection with the A$85m placing of shares in Sundance Resources Limited with a range of international institutional investors.
• Advised Skin Rocks on its Series A fundraising from Redrice Ventures and JamJar.
• Advised UBS as global coordinator, book runner and joint lead manager in connection with the US$525 million IPO and listing of Third Point on the LSE’s main market.

GENERAL CORPORATE ADVICE

• Advised Enviroo on the equity and debt aspects of the establishment of a plastics recycling plant, with funds provided by Reichmuth & Co.
• Advised Ghana National Petroleum Company on the corporate aspects of the $550m TEMA LNG Project.
• Advised a consortium comprising Macquarie, Barclays Infrastructure Funds and Mitsubishi on its multiple investments in the transmission assets of various offshore wind farms.
• Advised Tyco on the corporate restructuring for the US$1.66 billion spin-off of its healthcare and electronics businesses.
• Produced a Skilled Person Report under s166 of FSMA for the purposes of reviewing and reporting upon the effectiveness of the board of a listed UK Plc and of the governance and decision-making structure of the UK plc.
• Conducted a review of the corporate governance structures of a significant asset management company.