Overview
Catherine Kennedy is an associate in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Ms. Kennedy has a broad corporate practice involving public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions, including advising private equity sponsors on acquisitions, exits and equity incentive arrangements.
Education
- University of Law, Legal Practice Course, 2016
- University College Dublin, BBL (Hons), Business and Law, 2012
Representations
- Oakley Capital on the sale of Grupo Primavera and reinvestment in Cegid, alongside Silver Lake and KKR.
- Symphony Technology Group, on its acquisition of a leading cloud-based data management provider, Alveo from Sovereign Capital.
- Oakley Capital on its acquisition of PRIMAVERA and merger with the Ekon business to form Grupo Primavera.
- Oakley Capital on its acquisition of legal information platform, vLex, from its founders and Caixa Capital Risc.
- Abry Partners on the acquisition of Pole Star Space Applications, in a joint venture with WaveCrest Growth Partners.
- Oakley Capital on its minority investment in Idealista, an online property portal operating across Spain and Southern Europe, alongside EQT.
- Astorg, a leading European private equity firm with over €8 billion of assets under management, on the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Acturis Group, a leading supplier of insurance software, from Summit Partners.
- Oakley Capital, on its acquisition of two leading maritime e-learning businesses, Seagull and Videotel.
- SICP Investments SPC, on its investments into M-Flow Technologies.
- SilverTree Equity on its acquisition of Agility CIS, a New Zealand-based provider of utility customer information and billing systems software for energy retailers.
- Karl Storz, on its acquisition of AventaMed, an Irish-based developer of novel medical devices.
- BaseCamp Group Ltd and European Student Housing Funds on the sale of a portfolio of 11 private student and residential accommodation assets to Xior Student Housing NV.
- Hanwha Systems Co. on its US$300 million investment in OneWeb, a U.K.-based low-earth orbit satellite communications company.
- DXC Technology on its acquisition of the shares in Virtual Clarity following its 2017 strategic investment in Virtual Clarity.
news
- Paul Hastings Advises SAI360 in Evotix Acquisition - May 5th, 2023
- Paul Hastings Advises Oakley Capital on Acquisition of vLex - September 7th, 2022
- Paul Hastings Advises Oakley Capital on $6.8 Billion Merger with Cegid Group - July 27th, 2022
- Paul Hastings Advises BaseCamp on Sale of €939 Million European Student Accommodation Portfolio to Xior Student Housing - June 27th, 2022
- Hanwha Systems to Invest US$300 Million in Global Satellite Company OneWeb - August 13th, 2021
- Oakley Capital announces investment in Idealista - January 27th, 2021
- Masimo LHC Ltd offer for LiDCO Group Plc - November 2nd, 2020
- DXC Technology Acquires Virtual Clarity - November 8th, 2019
- Oakley Capital Acquires Seagull and Videotel - May 14th, 2019
- Astorg Acquires Significant Minority Shareholding in Acturis - March 4th, 2019
- Alignvest to Acquire Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited for $536 Million - December 4th, 2018
- Hansol Paper Sells European Companies to Iconex - November 6th, 2018