Paul Foote

Private Equity and Investment Funds

• Blackstone Capital Partners in its investments in Civica, Esdec Solar Group, Desotec, Huws Gray, and Bourne Leisure.
• EQT in its acquisitions of Statera Energy Limited and InstaVolt.
• H.I.G. Capital, LLC in its acquisition of KPMG’s U.K. restructuring business.
• CVC in the acquisition of a 30% stake in Cosan Lubes Investments Limited.
• Cinven in the acquisition of Envirotainer, a provider of temperature-controlled air cargo containers.
• Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in its investment in Lazeo.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• KKR in its acquisitions of Dawsongroup plc and Refresco.
• Bourne Leisure, a portfolio company of Blackstone, in its agreement to sell Butlin’s, the British chain of seaside resorts.

Infrastructure Transactions

• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition, alongside CDP and Macquarie, of a controlling stake in Autostrade per l’Italia, one of Europe’s leading toll road operators.
• Stonepeak on its €2.1 billion equity recapitalization of euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company.
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition, with the Borletti Group and ICAMAP, of Grandi Stazioni Retail.
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan on the acquisition and the sale of its 40% interest in Koole Terminals.

Corporate Dispositions

• BlackRock in the disposal of an interest in a Bulgarian telecommunications business.
• Blackstone on its £1.1bn sale of Armacell, a Luxembourg/Germany-based global business manufacturing and distributing insulation and fibre products.