Biography
Eithne is a Tax counsel based in the London office. Eithne advises clients on tax issues principally relating to corporation transactions, with a particular focus on private equity and general corporate M&A transactions and reorganisations, finance arrangements, restructurings and joint ventures.
Representative experience as part of a team includes advising:
- Advent International on numerous transactions, including recently on:
- the carve-out and sale of Tag Worldwide Holdings Ltd;
- portfolio company Cobham on the carve-out and sale of its Special Mission division to Leidos and its Regional Services division to Rex;
- portfolio company IRCA on the carve out acquisition of Kerry Group’s sweet ingredients division;
- portfolio company Mangopay on the acquisitions of Nethone and WhenThen; and
- the financing of its acquisition of Transaction Services Group
- Bain Capital on the corporate and financing aspects of its acquisition, together with Nextalia, of Deltatre
- Curtis Brown Group, a representative of literary and talent groups, in its sale to United Talent Agency from Grabiner CBG LLP and other selling shareholders
- Sun European Partners on its sale of C&K Components to Littelfuse Inc.
- Sumeru Equity Partners on its investment in iProov Limited
- Trive Capital and Picture Shop on their acquisition of The Farm Post Production Limited
- SEAF on its sale of ABCom to Vodafone Albania
- Berkshire Partners on its sale of Teraco Data Environments
- Eli Lilly on its collaboration with Sitryx
- TCV as lead investor on the Series E funding round for Revolut
- TPG Growth on its Series C investment in Onfido
- Knowlton Development Corporation on its acquisition of the manufacturing business (and assets) from Swallowfield plc
- Providence Equity Partners on numerous transactions, including recently on: its acquisition of CloserStill Media; its acquisition of Flow Hospitality Training Limited; and its acquisition of the shares in marketing services company Chime which were held by its co-investor WPP Group
- OneSource Virtual on its sale of its professional services and application management practices businesses to Cognizant
- Her Majesty’s Government as part of a 50/50 consortium with Bharti Global in the consortium’s acquisition, in a chapter 11 court-supervised sale process, of OneWeb Global
- syncreon Group Holdings B.V., and its affiliates, in a cross-border restructuring involving approximately $1.1 billion of funded debt, including English schemes of arrangement, and associated chapter 15 and CCAA recognition proceedings
- Antin Infrastructure Partners on the refinancing of Sølvtrans
- Ardian in connection with its acquisition financing of the FFW Group by Jakala S.p.A. Società Benefit and its reinvestment in Neopharmed Gentili S.p.A.
- Permira on the financing of its acquisition of Acuity
- Ares on the financing of Eurazeo’s investment in the BMS Group
- Blackrock on the financing of Blackstone’s acquisition of HH Global
- OMERS’ financing of Vue International
- PSP on numerous transactions, including recently on the financing of PAI’s acquisition of Theramex, and together with the other second lien lenders on the acquisition financing of Scout 24 by Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone
- Willis Towers Watson on a $1.1 billion unsecured term facility to finance the acquisition of TRANZACT
Prior to joining Weil, Eithne was an associate in the Tax & Incentives team at a UK-headquartered international firm in London.