Kirkland Advises Hellman & Friedman on Investment in Mehiläinen
Kirkland & Ellis is advising Hellman & Friedman (H&F) on its investment, alongside CVC, in Mehiläinen, the largest healthcare and social care provider in Finland. In parallel with H&F’s investment, Mehiläinen has agreed to acquire leading healthcare providers Regina Maria in Romania and MediGroup in Serbia. The completion of the acquisitions and new Mehiläinen ownership arrangement is subject to regulatory and customary investor approvals.
The Kirkland team includes corporate lawyers Keir MacLennan, David Higgins, Jeremy Wilkins, Jiri Peterka, Melissa Sawyer, Nikhil Mohindra, Oliver Weighill and Edward Mort; debt finance lawyers Kirsteen Nicol and Emma Shi; tax lawyers Peter Abbott, Hugo Coleman and Alexandria Solomou; antitrust & competition lawyers Thomas Wilson, Samantha Jones, James Donald and Loukia Kopitsa; and technology & IP transactions lawyers Emma Flett, Ben Zeris and Shareen Dhillon.
