Gavin Gordon

Prior to joining Willkie in 2019, Gavin was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

Gavin has advised on the following significant matters*:

• Searchlight Capital Partners on its recommended final cash offer for the entire share capital of London-listed Gresham House plc, a specialist alternative asset manager

• Briarwood Capital Partners in Keysight Technologies’ binding offer to key shareholders of the ESI Group, a French virtual prototyping software company 

• Searchlight Capital Partners in its joint offer to acquire Hyve Group plc, a UK-based organizer of international trade exhibitions and conferences

• FTV Capital on the sale of its majority stake in Centaur, a global provider of fund administration services, to Waystone

• iCON Infrastructure LLP in its strategic partnership with Royal Caribbean Group

• Black Knight Football Club, an investor consortium led by Bill Foley, in its acquisition of Premier League club AFC Bournemouth

• Stanley Capital in its acquisition of French pharmaceutical group Laboratoire XO

• Searchlight Capital Partners on the sale of its controlling stake in Opus, a market-leading vehicle inspection business in Sweden, to Arcus Infrastructure Partners

• Searchlight Capital Partners and Invesco Senior Secured Management in connection with the recapitalisation of the Mediapro Group, a leading multimedia communications group in Spain
• FTV Capital, 83North, Notion Capital and Kindred Capital on their Series D co-investment in Paddle, a provider of payments infrastructure for SaaS companies
• FTV Capital in its investment in LogicSource, Inc., a leading provider of procurement services and technology
• Searchlight Capital Partners in its sale of Global Risk Partners, a leading UK-based insurance brokerage business
• Stanley Capital in its acquisition of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Services Solutions
• Searchlight Capital Partners in its agreement to acquire a majority stake in Celestyal Cruises
• PDI in its acquisition of Universe Group plc, a British financial technology company
• Bain Capital Credit in its acquisition of GAIL’s Bakery
• Searchlight Capital Partners in its negotiations to acquire Flowbird, a global market leader in parking management solutions
• Searchlight Capital Partners on the sale of its significant stake in EOLO, an Italian broadband provider, to Partners Group
• Searchlight Capital Partners in connection with a €55 million Series B funding round in EasyMile, a leader in driverless vehicle software and solutions
• FFP on its contemplated acquisition of a minority interest in International SOS, a worldwide leader in health and security services
• Stanley Capital on its acquisition of global specialty pharmaceutical company, Noden Pharma DAC
• FTV Capital in its growth equity investment in London-based pet insurer Bought By Many
• Searchlight Capital Partners on its acquisition of Global Risk Partners, a leading UK based insurance brokerage business
• FTV Capital on its acquisition of Sysnet Limited, a leading provider of cyber security and compliance solutions operating in over 60 countries worldwide
• FTV Capital as lead investor in a funding round for CloudFactory, a UK headquartered provider of managed workforce solutions for artificial intelligence
• Searchlight Capital Partners on its take private of Opus Group AB, a Sweden-based technology-driven global leader in the vehicle inspection and intelligent vehicle support markets
• Advanced, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company and the UK’s third largest software company, on its acquisition of leading legacy modernisation solutions provider Modern Systems
• ABRY Partners on their preferred equity investment in Sermo, a global social network for doctors
• KKR on its takeover offer for TelePizza Group SA
• FTV Capital on its $40 million Series C financing round for Egress Software Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of data privacy and compliance software designed to secure unstructured data
• H.I.G. Capital and General Atlantic on the sale of their investment in FNZ
• FNZ Group on the acquisition of European Bank for Financial Services GmbH (ebase) from comdirect bank AG
• Vista and its portfolio company Advanced on the acquisition of Docman, the market leading electronic document management, workflow and information sharing platform provider to primary and secondary care services
• Pamplona Capital Management on the sale of Partner in Pet Food (‘PPF’), a market-leading European pet food company headquartered in Hungary, to Cinven
• Vista Equity Partners on its acquisition of Allocate Software, a UK-based international leader in workforce management software for the healthcare sector
• GTCR on its £1.0 billion sale of Callcredit Information Group Limited to TransUnion
• Searchlight Capital on its sale of Ocean Outdoor to Ocelot Partners Limited
• Searchlight Capital Partners in its acquisition of a significant stake in EOLO SpA, a leading broadband provider covering more than 10 million homes in central and northern Italy
• Trintech, a leading provider of cloud-based financial reporting software and portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, on its acquisition of Norwegian-based Adra Software
• Vector Capital on its investment in Cloudsense, a leading commerce software as a service provider with operations across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific
• Bain Capital and Cinven on their €5.4 billion joint public takeover of the German pharmaceutical company Stada Arzneimittel AG; to date the largest private equity transaction ever realized in the German market
• KKR and its portfolio company Selecta on the acquisitions by Selecta of Pelican Rouge Group B.V. and Argenta
• Vista Equity Partners and Misys on the acquisition of DH Corporation for an enterprise value of approximately C$4.8 billion
• Cerberus Capital Management on the acquisition of a controlling interest in Staples’ European business
• Maxis Communications Berhad in a transaction with Reliance Communications (RCOM) to combine RCOM’s Indian wireless business with Aircel Limited, a subsidiary of Maxis. The transaction is the largest ever consolidation in the Indian telecommunications sector and one of the largest merger of equals in India
• Cinven on the acquisition of BioClinica
• TPG Growth LLC on the acquisition of Frank Recruitment Group Limited (FRG)
• KKR in connection with the initial public offering of Telepizza
• Vista Equity Partners on the acquisition of Cvent, Inc.
• Vista Equity Partners on the disposal of a majority stake in Sovos Compliance to HgCapital
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the merger of their Bridon business with the global ropes and advanced cords business of Bekaert N.V.
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the acquisition of a stake in Synlab
• Searchlight Capital Partners on the acquisition with Duke Street of Fork Rent and One Call
• Stats, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, on its acquisition of Prozone Sports
• Pamplona Capital Management on the €315 million purchase of Partner in Pet Food
• GTCR on its £462 million sale of Premium Credit Limited to Cinven Partners LLP. This transaction was named “Financial Services Deal of the Year” at The M&A Advisor 2016 International M&A Awards
• TGI Fridays on the sale of the UK TGI Fridays business
• Searchlight Capital Partners on its purchase of Ocean Outdoor
• Vista Equity Partners on the £725 million take private of Advanced Computer Software Group plc
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan on the £365 million acquisition of Bridon Limited
• Summit Partners on the acquisition of Independent Vetcare Holdings
• Agencyport Europe, a portfolio company of Thomas H. Lee Partners, on its £64 million sale of its European operations to Xchanging plc.
• GTCR on its acquisition of Callcredit Information Group Limited
• Taminco Corporation on the acquisition of the formic acid business of Kemira Oyj
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan on the acquisition of Burton's Biscuits Company
• FTV Capital on its investment in World First
• New Mountain Capital on the £250 million acquisition of Alexander Mann
• KKR on the $1 billion acquisition of The Crosby Group
• FTV Capital on their $40 million investment in Credorax Inc.
• KKR and Bayside in relation to the restructuring of Estro Group
• ABRY Partners on the acquisition of Basefarm AS.
• GTCR on the acquisition of Premium Credit Limited, asset value $1.45 billion
• Vista Equity Partners on the $2 billion take private of software company Misys plc
• Vista Equity Partners on the acquisition of Thomson Reuters risk management software business
• Cinven and GS Capital Partners on the €1.8 billion sale of Ahlsell to CVC Capital Partners
• Merlin Entertainments and Blackstone on the funding and development of Legoland Florida
• Gala Coral on its £2.8 billion debt restructuring
• British Midland plc on its £300 million sale to Lufthansa
• Alinda Infrastructure on the acquisition of South Staffordshire Water
• Merlin Entertainment Group and Blackstone in Merlin's £2 billion merger with The Tussauds Group and subsequent £622 million sale and leaseback of certain properties
• RUSAL Limited on its $30 billion merger with domestic rival SUAL International Limited and the alumina business of Swiss natural resources group Glencore International AG
• RUSAL on the $15 billion acquisition of a stake in Norilsk Nickel
• A consortium led by Netcare Healthcare Holdings Ltd and Apax Partners on the £2.3 billion acquisition of General Healthcare Group
• Tragus Group and Blackstone on the £140 million acquisition of Strada Restaurants
• Blackstone and Forest Bidco on the £205 million acquisition of Center Parcs
• Management of Countrywide on the Countrywide restructuring
• Various management teams on buy-out transactions including the management of the Ambassadors Theatre Group, Svendborg Brake and Saft Batteries
• NIBC Infrastructure on the acquisition of Welcome Break
• The management and employees of Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division on their transfer to Nomura
• Balfour Beatty Capital on its acquisition of Blackpool Airport and the proposed acquisition of Belfast City Airport

_{*Gavin advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie.}