EXPERIENCE

Christopher’s representative experience has included:

• Blackstone in a variety of transactions, including:
  • in its €1.64 billion acquisition of CRH's European Distribution Business
  • in its £800 million acquisition of NEC Group
  • in its £600 million acquisition of Clarion Events
  • in its $640 million acquisition of a majority stake in The Office Group
  • Blackstone and Kirkbi in the £1.1 billion sale of Armacell, a Luxembourg/Germany-based global business manufacturing and distributing insulation and fibre products
• Cinven in a variety of transactions, including:
  • in its £2.3 billion sale of Amdipharm Mercury Company Limited to Concordia Healthcare Corporation
  • in its £2 billion acquisition of wealth manager True Potential
  • in its €1.3 billion acquisition of Labco
  • in its €1.7 billion acquisition of Synlab from BC Partners and its combination with Labco and subsequent €5.9 billion IPO
  • in its £1.6 million sale of UK reinsurer, Guardian Financial Services to the Admin Re division of Swiss Life
  • in its acquisition of specialty insurance broker Miller, with GIC
  • in its $875 million acquisition of Amara NZero
  • in its $1.17 billion acquisition of Envirotainer
  • Cinven and Novo Holdings in its EUR€2.8 billion sale of Envirotainer to EQT and Mubadala
• Coor Service Management and Cinven in Coor’s SEK3.6 billion IPO
• CVC in a variety of transactions, including:
  • in its £1.1 billion acquisition of leading consumer finance and tech business, NewDay, with Cinven
  • in its £750 million acquisition of warranty services provider Domestic & General from Advent
  • in its £500 million acquisition of online payment provider Skrill from Investcorp
  • in its $145 million acquisition of a minority interest in Moove from Cosan
  • in its acquisition of a significant stake in the RAC from Carlyle
• Alter Domus in numerous acquisitions in Europe and the US, including the £600 million minority investment in Alter Domus by Permira
• BlackRock, Inc. in its acquisition of private debt manager Kreos Capital
• BlackRock LTPC and Javier Ferran in the original acquisition of luxury fragrance house CREED from Olivier Creed, and subsequent €3.5 billion sale to Kering SA
• BlackRock LTPC in its £350 million acquisition of pension software provider and administrator, Aquila Heywood
• Elliott in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Waterstones and subsequently on the acquisition of Foyles, Blackwell’s and other booksellers, by Waterstones and aspects of its takeover of Barnes & Noble
• DWS Group in the sale of its Private Equity Solutions business to Brookfield Asset Management
• The founders of DRC Capital in its sale to Savills IM
• IFM in its acquisition of a 50% interest in Impala Terminals together with Trafigura
• Mastercard International Incorporated in its $3.19 billion acquisition of Nets’ account-to-account payments business from Nets A/S
• Permira in its $1.42 billion acquisition of Acuity Knowledge from Equistone
• THG PLC in its £4.5 billion IPO on the London Stock Exchange and subsequent $1.6 billion option and collaboration agreement with SoftBank Group Corp and THG’s contemporaneous $1 billion capital raising
• The shareholders of WSH in its £780 million partnership with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
• WSH in various acquisitions, including coffee chain Notes, Meyers in Denmark, Musiam in France, various UK businesses and a joint venture with Tom Kerridge’s events and hospitality business