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Catherine Kennedy

Associate, Corporate Department

London

Phone: 44-020-3023-5160
Fax: 44-020-3023-5460

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.

Practice Areas

Corporate


Languages

English


Admissions

England and Wales Solicitor


Education

University of Law, Moorgate, L.P.C. 2016

BPP University Law School, GDL 2015

University College Dublin, BBL 2012


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