Since joining Kirkland, Louis has worked on the following matters, advising:
- Wendel on the partnership agreement and majority acquisition of Monroe Capital
- Blue Wolf on the acquisition of Synerlab
- Esker on the take private by Bridgepoint, in association with General Atlantic and management shareholders
- Blue Wolf on the acquisition of seven CDMO Sites from Recipharm
- Arctos on its partnership and investment in Paris Saint-Germain
- Searchlight Capital on a €307 million recapitalization of Latécoère
- Warburg Pincus on the sale of Once For All to GTCR
- HgCapital on its majority investment in Nomadia
- Adenza, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo on its acquisition by NASDAQ for $10.5 billion
- Metaco on its sale to Ripple
- Nordic-Backed ArisGlobal on the acquisition of Amplexor Life Sciences
- GIC on its investment in Unither
- Thoma Bravo on its definitive agreement to acquire ForgeRock
- Clearwater Analytics on the acquisition of JUMP Technology
- Latécoère on the acquisition of Avcorp
- Fortius, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, on the acquisition of Once For All (Attestation Légale)
- Antin on its €4.1 billion initial public offering on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange
- Searchlight Capital on the recapitalisation of Latécoère
- Thoma Bravo on the acquisition of Calypso Technology, Inc. from Bridgepoint and Summit Partners
- InPost S.A. on the €565 million proposed acquisition of Mondial Relay
- Thoma Bravo on the $2.4 billion acquisition of Talend
- Trinseo on the €1.137 billion contemplated acquisition of Arkema’s PMMA business
- Antin Infrastructure Partners on its reinvestment in Eurofiber, including the sale of a minority stake to PGGM
- Horizon, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, on the €185m sale of 7.7 million Verallia shares through an accelerated bookbuild offering to institutional investors
- Vitruvian Partners on the sale of Technogroup to 3i-backed Evernex
- Apollo funds on the IPO of Verallia SA on the French Stock Exchange - the largest IPO in France in 2019
- Searchlight Capital on the takeover offer of Latécoère
- Searchlight Capital on the acquisition of a minority stake in Latécoère
Prior to joining Kirkland, Louis worked on the following matters, advising:
- the management of Saint Mamet, a French fruit company, on its sale to Hivest
- Core Equity on the acquisition of IdVerde
- Bunzl, an international British retail company, on the sale of SodaStream France
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the acquisition of a majority stake in OGF
- Weinberg Capital Partners on the sale of Sasa Industries
- Oaktree on the sale of SGD
- Apax on the acquisitions of Marlink and Telemar
- Atos, an international French technology company, on the tender offer and squeeze out on Bull
- CVC funds on the acquisition of Parex
- Cinven on the sale of Frans Bonhomme
