Sara Pickersgill

Prior to and since joining Kirkland, Sara has been involved in the following matters, advising:

• KKR on the investment in Enilive
• Apollo on the acquisition of a stake in bp Pipelines TAP
• Ryan on the acquisition of Altus Group’s property tax services business
• Engine No. 1 on its binding agreement with Vale to invest in Vale Base Metals (VBM)
• Beacon Rail on its acquisition of Mitsui Rail Capital Europe
• GIP on the acquisition of a stake in Scotia Gas Network*
• DigitalBridge and Brookfield on the acquisition of a majority stake in GD Towers*
• 3i Infrastructure on the acquisition of global subsea cable operator, Global Cloud Xchange (GCX)*
• The Macquarie, 3i and AustralianSuper consortium on the bid for GTT Communications*
• Digital9 on the acquisition of a majority stake in Arqiva being sold by CPPIB*
• Advising on the establishment of American Tower’s pan-European platform and on its strategic partnership with CDPQ and Allianz Capital Partners*
• ATC on the acquisition of Telxius’ Spanish, German and Latin American 31,000 tower division*
• EQT on its bid to acquire Telia’s Nordic towers business*
• Macquarie Asset Management on the acquisition of Polish fibre to the home network operator, INEA*
• JPMorgan’s IIF and First State (now Igneo) on the sale of Electricity Northwest*
• Enel, Allianz, InfraRed and Equitix on the consortium bid for Western Power Distribution*
• 3i Infrastructure on the successful sale of Cross London Trains*
• APG on its acquisition of Arcus’ and AMP’s stakes in Alpha Trains*
• The winning bidding consortium on the most recent sale process for High Speed 1*
• Equitix on its successful bid for Irish gas distribution network operator, Firmus Energy*
• Elia, on its acquisition of an interest in Eurogrid and 50 Hertz*
• Infracapital on its investment in the Nordic energy storage business, EnergyNest*
• AXA on its acquisition of KKR’s interest in the Acciona Energias global renewables platform*

*Matters prior to Kirkland