Sonia Bouaffassa

Since joining Kirkland, Sonia has worked on the following matters, advising:

• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, on its acquisition of a 50% controlling stake in Opella from Sanofi, for an enterprise value of €16 billion
• Atlas Luxco to announce $8 billion financing of public tender offers to take Millicom private
• Iliad to complete the high yield bond offerings of $1.8 billion and liability management transaction
• Gallant Capital on the acquisition of Fime and its combination with UL Solutions’ payments testing business
• KKR-backed April to complete €1.4 billion refinancing
• Parts Europe on its €1.2 billion refinancing
• SK Capital Partners on the $538 million sale of IPACKCHEM
• Vantiva Technologies on the implementation of an €85 million bridge facility
• Banijay to complete €910 million bond refinancing
• IDEMIA Group on the amendment and extension of its revolving credit facility and cross-border TLB facilities
• HgCapital on its majority investment in Nomadia
• Thomas H. Lee Partners and Frazier Healthcare Partners on the sale of Adare Biome
• Nordic-backed ArisGlobal on the acquisition of Amplexor Life Sciences
• Banijay Group to amend, extend and upsize its senior secured debt
• Warburg Pincus and ArchiMed on the sale of Polyplus
• Core Equity Holdings and the Provalliance Group on its refinancing
• Univar on a Global ABL Credit Facility
• Technicolor on the spinoff and listing of its creative visual arts services division
• Clearwater Analytics on the acquisition of JUMP Technology
• Parts Europe on its new €180 million super senior revolving credit facility entered into in connection with the acquisition of Parts Holding Europe by D’Ieteren Group S.A.
• Fortius, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, on the acquisition of Once For All (Attestation Légale) 
• IVC Evidensia, a portfolio company of EQT Private Equity, on the acquisition of VetOne group
• Ares on the acquisition of a majority stake in Point Vision Group from Abenex
• IVC Evidensia, a portfolio company of EQT Private Equity, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Veternity 
• Goldman Sachs and other shareholders of Talentsoft on the sale of Talentsoft
• Continental Grain Company on its strategic investment in Cérélia 
• InPost S.A. on the €565 million proposed acquisition of Mondial Relay 
• Technicolor on the tax aspects of its successful comprehensive financial restructuring 
• Providence Equity Partners on the exclusive negotiations relating to the potential acquisition of a majority stake in Groupe La Centrale 
• Trinseo on the €1.137 billion contemplated acquisition of Arkema’s PMMA business 
• Appfire, a portfolio company of Silversmith Capital Partners, on its acquisition of Innovalog 
• The Arc group (“Arc”), the world leader in tableware, on the reorganization of its financial structure 
• Warburg Pincus on its investment in Polyplus, a developer of innovative and cost-effective technology used in gene and cell therapy

Prior to joining Kirkland, Sonia worked on the following matters, advising:

• the founder and managers of the Euro Techno Com group in connection with Carlyle’s investment
• Dentressangle in connection with the acquisition of the Actéon group
• Weinberg Capital Partners on the reorganization of the share capital of Adit and the subsequent sale of the group to Parquest Capital
• Cerea and Ardian, co-investors, in connection with the acquisition of Mademoiselle Dessert by IK Investment Partners
• InVivo Retail (Gamm Vert / Delbard) in connection with the acquisition of Jardiland from L-Gam
• Alchemy in connection with the sale of the JOA group
• the Ethypharm group on the refinancing of its unitranche debt by Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan and the acquisition of DBA
• the Ethypharm group on its acquisition by PAI from Astorg
• the lenders in relation to the restructuring of the debt and takeover of the Desmet Ballestra group by its senior lenders
• Private Theory in relation to the debt restructuring and take-over of Arc International
• the senior lenders in relation to the restructuring of the debt and takeover of the Winoa group
• ICG in relation to the debt restructuring and takeover of the Parkeon group

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