David Allen

• Advised APG on multiple acquisitions including LBC Terminals, Glaspoort (the KPN fibre to the home joint venture) and euNetworks.
• Advised Apollo on multiple bids and acquisitions, including Sazka, the pan-European lottery group.
• Advised Bain Capital on a significant number of new money, add-on deals and restructurings, including: Davigel, Fresh Direct, the Brakes sale, the Ideal Standard MENA sale to RGA, the Ideal Standard restructuring, sale of certain operations of Autodis, AD Bosch, bids for Independent Vet Care, CRH's European distribution business, the Equans division of ENGIE, NMC Healthcare & Norgine B.V.
• Advised Bluegem Capital Partners on multiple acquisitions including: Béaba and Light & Living Group and the sale of the DMC group.
• Advised Core Equity on the acquisition of Portman Dental and multiple bids and add-on acquisitions.
• Advised Fiera Infrastructure on multiple bids and acquisitions, including Islalink, Wightlink and Inalan.
• Advised Mayfair Private Equity on its leveraged buy-out of Jonckers, the tech-enabled language services provider. 
• Advised Platinum Equity on multiple bids and acquisitions including Hays Logistics (and the sale of ACR Logistics), 3B, the Fibreglass Company, Nampak Cartons and Healthcare (and the separation of the businesses and sales to Graphic Packaging and Filtrona respectively), OAO Technologies, Worldwide Flight Services, Consolidated Aviation Services (and subsequent sale of Worldwide Flight Services). 
• Advised Silver Lake on multiple bids and acquisitions including RAC and the sale of Rastreator and LeLynx.
• Advised various Japanese companies on acquisitions and disposals including: Hitachi on the USD 11 billion acquisition of ABB's power grids business in over 100 jurisdictions (the largest ever acquisition by a Japanese industrial company) and ITOCHU on the acquisition of the Kwik-Fit group and sale of the French operations to management.

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