Stuart Boyd

Stuart’s representative matters prior to and since joining Kirkland include:

• Vista Equity Partners on the acquisition of Redwood.
• Apax Partners and its portfolio company Zellis Group on the acquisition of Benify.
• Diamond Offshore Drilling on the acquisition by Noble for $1.6 billion
• AE Industrial Partners on the sale of Belcan to Cognizant
• HGGC on the sale of Specialist Risk Group to Warburg Pincus and Temasek
• KnowBe4 on the acquisition of Egress
• Apax on the acquisition of Zellis
• Charlesbank Capital Partners on its investment in Perspective Financial Group
• British American Tobacco in a series of UK proceedings against Philip Morris
• Carlyle on the sale of Jagex to CVC and Haveli Investments
• Apax on the acquisitions of OCS and Finwave
• Apax Partners on the proposed acquisition of Kin and Carta
• Birkenstock Holding and its principal shareholder, L Catterton, on Birkenstock’s $1.5 billion IPO
• Apax and EcoOnline on the acquisition of Ecometrica
• Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings on its sale to JCDecaux
• Asda Group on the acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland operations for an enterprise value of c. £2.27 billion
• Parthenon Capital on the strategic investment in Titan Wealth Holdings
• Apax Partners and Healthium on the sale of Clinisupplies
• An affiliate of AE Industrial Partners in connection with its entry into a definitive agreement for the sale of Resolute Industrial
• BC Partners on its definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Madison Logic
• Apax and its portfolio company EcoOnline on the acquisition of Alcumus’ software business
• Accel-KKR on the successful public tender offer for Basware Corporation
• Power Factors on the acquisition of Inaccess
• Silversmith Capital Partners on the $55 million growth investment in Gearset 
• Apax Partners on the recommended cash offer for EcoOnline Holding AS 
• Apax, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
  • and Inmarsat on the $7.3 billion combination with Viasat, Inc.
  • on the $3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat
• Höegh LNG on its entry into a definitive merger agreement with Höegh LNG Partners LP to acquire all publicly held common units of the partnership
• Leif Höegh & Co. Ltd. and funds managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners through a 50/50 joint venture vehicle to acquire the shares in Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd
• Vista Equity Partners
  • and iCIMS on the acquisition of Candidate.ID
  • and Mediaocean on the acquisition of Flashtalking
  • and Ping Identity on the $45 million acquisition of Symphonic Software
  • and Naviga on the acquisition of Miles 33
  • on BC Partners’ investment in Advanced
  • and Granicus on the acquisition of Firmstep
• Extreme Reach, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, on the acquisition of Adstream
• Citigroup on the £115 million IPO on the London Stock Exchange of Hiro Metaverse Acquisitions I S.A., a special purpose acquisition company 
• Gazit Hercules 2020 Limited (Newco) on the definitive merger agreement for a recommended cash acquisition of Atrium European Real Estate Limited 
• Polestar Performance AB on its $20 billion combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
• Hg and Vista Equity Partners on the sale of Allocate, a leading workforce and people management software-as-a-service provider, to RLDatix 
• SK Capital on the c. $2 billion sale of Perimeter Solutions to EverArc Holdings Ltd.
• TDR Capital
  • on the acquisition of a majority stake in Asda
  • on the c. £563 million recommended offer for Arrow Global Group plc
  • on the acquisition of BPP
  • and its portfolio company, Stonegate Pub Company, on the £1.27 billion recommended cash offer for Ei Group
• GIC on the capital increase and associated refinancing of AccorInvest Group 
• AJAX I on its $7 billion business combination agreement with Cazoo Holdings Limited
• Smarsh Inc., a portfolio company of K1 Investment Management, on the $375 million acquisition of Digital Safe from Micro Focus
• Fox Corporation on the joint venture with Gordon Ramsay to jointly form new production entity STUDIO RAMSAY GLOBAL
• Service Express, a portfolio company of Harvest Partners, on its acquisition of Blue Chip, a leading provider of mission-critical IT infrastructure services 
• ABRY Partners on its investment in the $350 million capital raise by ERS
• Oak Hill Advisors on its equity investment in start-up specialty Lloyds insurer Inigo
• Advanced, a portfolio company of BC Partners and Vista Equity Partners,
  • on the acquisition of Mitrefinch, a global provider of workforce management solutions, from LDC
  • on the acquisition of legal technology business Tikit Limited from BT
• Warburg Pincus on its co-investment in the combined group of Tilney Smith & Williamson
• ABRY Partners on the acquisition of Options Technology from Bregal Sagemount
• The Marshall Retail Group on its $400 million sale to WH Smith
• Gazit-Globe Limited on the recommended €1.4 billion offer for Atrium European Real Estate Limited
• Arsenal Capital Partners on the acquisition of Clariant’s Healthcare Packaging business
• BC Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in United Group, a leading media and communication services provider across Southeast Europe, from KKR
• Goldman Sachs, Park Square and others on the sale of NGA’s software business to Bain Capital
• HgCapital on its P2P of Allocate Software plc
• GIC as part of a consortium acquiring a 55% a stake in the real estate assets of French multinational hotel group AccorHotels for approximately €4.4 billion
• Carlyle on its acquisition of EnerMech Group from Lime Rock
• Rhône Capital on the acquisition of Eden Springs and on the subsequent bolt-on acquisition of water businesses from Nestlé Waters across five jurisdictions
• Global Logistics Properties (GLP) on its acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management for approximately US$2.8 billion
• Carlyle on the acquisition of Barbon insurance and PIB Insurance
• Brait on its £1.9 billion acquisition of New Look and on the £1.3 billion acquisition of Virgin Active
• Bridgepoint on the acquisition of Quilter & Co from Morgan Stanley, the bolt-on acquisition of Cheviot Partners and the sale of Quilter Cheviot to Old Mutual Wealth for £585m
• Arle Capital on its sale of Innovia Group for €500 million
• KNOC on the $1.9 billion hostile takeover of Dana Petroleum

Linklaters LLP, London

• Partner, 2013–2016

• Managing Associate, 2009–2013

• Associate, 2005–2009