Suroop Singh Kandola

Since joining Kirkland, Suroop's representative matters have included advising:

• British American Tobacco in a series of UK proceedings against Philip Morris
• Morrisons and its shareholder Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on entering into an agreement to sell petrol forecourts to MFG and take a minority stake
• Apollo on its recommended all-cash acquisition of The Restaurant Group
• IDEMIA Group on the amendment and extension of its revolving credit facility and cross-border TLB facilities
• Partners Group:
  
  • on the acquisition by its portfolio company, Rovensa, of Cosmocel, a Mexican bionutrients and biological solutions company
  • on the acquisition of Forterro, a leading pan-European software services provider
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of Wildstone
• Pamplona Capital Management on the acquisition of EET, an IT logistics and equipment supply business
• SK Capital on the acquisition by its portfolio company, Archroma, of the textiles business of Huntsman

Prior to joining Kirkland, Suroop’s representative matters included advising:

• IK Investment Partners on the financing for its acquisition of Kersia SAS
• Brookfield Capital Partners on multiple financing bids for various European assets
• The Infront Group on the refinancing of its existing facilities
• The lenders on the financing of the acquisition and take private of the Merlin Entertainments group
• The lenders on financing of the acquisition of the Euroports group
• Bain Capital and the Italmatch group on the financing for their acquisition of the British Water Additives group
• The lenders on the financing of the acquisition of the WSH restaurants and catering business by CD&R
• Nordic Capital on the financing of its acquisition of the Alloheim group
• Soho House on the refinancing of its existing facilities
• Hellman & Friedman the financing of its acquisition of Verisure / Securitas Direct

Latham & Watkins LLP, London

• Associate, 2014–2021