Chris Agnoli

Recent experience includes advising:

• funds affiliated with EQT Private Capital Asia on:
  • its acquisition of a controlling beneficial interest in GeBBS, a global provider of healthcare outsourcing solutions, from ChrysCapital
  • the acquisition of Tricor Group, Asia’s leading business expansion specialist whose corporate mission is to facilitate globalisation in Asia. The transaction valued Tricor at an enterprise value of $2.76 billion
  • the acquisition of IGT Solutions, formerly InterGlobe Technologies, from an affiliate of Apollo Global Management
  • the sale of the software firm Hexaware Technologies
  • the sale of Lumenis LTD. Surgical Business, a company that develops and commercializes energy-based medical solutions, to Boston Scientific
  • US$1 billion+ acquisition of Lumenis, the Israeli-headquartered global leader in the field of minimally-invasive clinical solutions for the aesthetic, surgical and ophthalmology specialties
  • their and PAI Partners’ acquisition of World Freight Company International, the global leader in the General Sales and Service Agent market
• American Industrial Partners on its acquisition of an ownership position in Aker BioMarine's Feed Ingredients segment
• Astorg on:
  • the demerger of Fastmarkets from Delinian, formerly known as Euromoney Institutional Investor plc
  • its acquisition of the Fastmarkets business division of Euromoney Institutional Investor, as part of a £1.61 billion acquisition of the financial publisher Euromoney by Astorg and Epiris
• GHO Capital Partners on its acquisition (alongside the existing Envision management team and employees) of a majority stake in Envision Pharma Group, a leading technology-enabled scientific communications company
• Bain Capital in connection with:
  • its sale of the Zellis group to Apax Partners, valuing Zellis at £1.25 billion
  • the acquisition of NGA UK, a UK payroll and HR business from NGA Human Resources
  • the acquisition of Benefex, an HR technology business
  • its purchase of a controlling stake in MKM, the UK’s largest independent builders’ merchant, from 3i and Lloyds Development Capital
• Intermediate Capital Group on:
  • its sale and reinvestment into IRIS Software Group, a leading global provider of mission-critical software and services in accountancy, payroll, HR and education. The investment represented one of Europe’s largest software buyouts for 2023, valuing IRIS at an Enterprise Value of around £3.15 billion
  • its sale and reinvestment into Visma – a leading provider of mission-critical cloud software in Europe and Latin-America - valuing Visma at €19 billion
  • its investment in Travel Chapter, one of the UK’s leading holiday rental platforms, supporting the sale of the company to its management team from private equity firm ECI Partners
  • its US$5.3 billion consortium buyout of Visma, Europe's largest ever software buyout
  • its investment into Law Business Research (LBR)
• Bridgepoint on
  • its sale and reinvestment in PEI Group, an international provider of information, insights and events for the global alternative private assets market
  • its acquisition of SK AeroSafety Group, a global leader in aviation safety component maintenance, repair and overhaul services
  • the strategic investment in Kerv Group, a next generation cloud and digital transformation services provider
  • its partnership with Monica Vinader, the award-winning British luxury jewellery brand
• AEA Investors on its sale of LoneStar to Epiris, a private equity firm
• US-headquartered biotech company Jounce Therapeutics, Inc. on its business combination, via a proposed all share merger, with UK-headquartered biotech company Redx Pharma plc
• ERM, the world’s largest pure-play sustainability consultancy, and the ERM Partner shareholders, on the sale of ERM to KKR, a leading global investment firm
• Genstar Capital and its portfolio company Bracket on the acquisition of CRF Health, a leading provider of eCOA solutions for the life sciences industry
• TPG Capital on its acquisition of a majority stake in Nintex from Thoma Bravo
• TPG Capital, and its portfolio company Beaver-Visitec, in connection with:
  • the acquisition of Malosa Medical, a UK-based medical devices company
  • the acquisition of PhysIOL Group SA 
• TPG’s Rise Fund on the acquisition of a majority investment in Outcomes First Group, a UK-based education business
• TSG Consumer Partners on:
  • its acquisition of a minority stake in BrewDog, a Scottish craft beer company
  • its acquisition of a minority stake in Revolution Beauty
• SC Health Corp., a special purpose acquisitions company, in its proposed merger with Rockley Photonics, Ltd, a leading integrated photonics chipset developer and module supplier for high-volume sensor and communication products
• various European and Asian sovereign and institutional investors on their primary, co-investment and secondaries programs
• AlpInvest Partners, a subsidiary of global investment firm Carlyle, in the close of a $1 billion Continuation Fund by One Equity Partners and co-led by HarbourVest Partners that will support continued growth for two European portfolio companies
• a consortium comprising Nature Infrastructure Capital (NIC) and Brookfield backed X-ELIO, who together have formed a strategic partnership with Å Energi Invest and other existing shareholders of ECO STOR to make a significant investment in ECO STOR, one of the leading utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) developers in Germany
• Liberty Global on the establishment of a notes issuance programme by VM Receivables Financing, to fund the purchase of a consumer handset loan receivables from Virgin Media Mobile Finance
• AtlasEdge, a leading pan-European Edge data centre provider, on a scalable €725 million loan financing
• Virgin Media Group on the first ever issuance of receivables finance notes and the UK’s first ever handset securitisation 
• UPC Holding B.V. and its subsidiaries in connection with high yield bond issuances including through special purpose vehicles, with the offering proceeds applied to fund term loans under credit facilities
• Cable & Wireless Communications and its subsidiaries in connection with Sable International Finance Limited's issuance of US$400 million of senior secured notes due 2027, adding secured bonds to the Cable & Wireless capital structure, and the issuance of US$300 million senior notes due 2027, issued as additional notes to the existing US$700 million senior notes originally issued in August 2017
• BidFair on its US$3.7 billion acquisition of Sotheby's, including a $600 million high yield bond, a $500 million Term Loan B and a $400 million revolving credit facility
• Sixth Street on a new joint venture with Starwood Capital in respect of an investment in a €258 million Italian retail portfolio held by IGD
• Brookfield, alongside its operator and manager, Copley Point Capital, on a £125 million JV recapitalization of three big-box distribution warehouses from Tritax Big Box REIT
• GIC in connection with its acquisition of a 40% interest in The Oxford Science Park from Magdalen College, Oxford and on a strategic joint venture between GIC and Magdalen College aimed at accelerating major development of the Science Park
• King Street and Arax Properties on their joint venture acquisition from Blackstone of Alban Gate in the City of London for £295 million and on the associated financing with Apollo
• Dutch pension fund APG on:
  • its acquisition of a 75 per cent interest in a joint venture with TH Real Estate, with a combined equity commitment of c.£800 million, to develop the £1 billion 1.7 million sq.ft. St James Centre in Edinburgh, one of the UK’s largest private regeneration projects
  • a €400 million joint venture with Hines Ireland to develop four greenfield sites at Cherrywood, Dublin for PRS and associated retail and leisure purposes and on a wider €700 million PRS joint venture in the Dublin area
• QuadReal on the upsize and extension of the projected €4 billion European logistics development platform, Continental Development Partners I (CDP I), sponsored by global logistics operator, GLP, under which QuadReal increased its equity commitment to CDP I to €800 million
• A family office on the €500 million acquisition, development and financing of one of the world’s largest data centres and its associated letting to a major international tech company