Biography
Ellie Marques is counsel in the London Tax team. She advises clients on a broad range of complex UK and international corporate tax matters with particular focus on providing tax advice in relation to private equity and general corporate M&A transactions and reorganisations.
Ellie also advises on complex cross-border structuring, VAT, banking and leveraged finance tax matters, management equity/incentives, tax litigation and corporates establishing a taxable UK presence.
Ellie has, as part of the Tax team, advised a number of major corporates and private equity houses. Recent representative experience includes advising:
- Advent on the $3.45 billion sale of Ultra Maritime to Lockheed Martin
- The Visualize Group on the acquisition of eCOGRA from Hanover Investors
- Bain Capital and SilverTree Equity on the sale of XTEL to Oakley Capital
- Brookfield on its $900 million acquisition of Fosber, a global leader in the design and production of advanced machinery, parts and services for the corrugated packaging industry
- OCS Group (a portfolio company of CD&R) on the acquisition of EMCOR Group plc
- PAI Partners on its €3.6 billion equity transaction and establishment of a new ownership structure for its c. 50% stake in Froneri
- L’Oréal USA in its acquisition of Color Wow
- HPS and Permira Credit, as senior lenders, in a consensual handover of the Away Resorts Group in connection with, and as part of, the restructuring of the Away Resorts Group, which involved the amendment and restatement of the Away Resorts Group’s existing financing
- PSG on the sale of Signaturit to Namirial (a portfolio company of Bain Capital) and PSG’s reinvestment in the combined business
- Montagu on the financing for their acquisition of Multifonds
- General Atlantic on the investment in Wireless Logic, global leader in IoT connectivity
- KLAR Partners on the acquisition of Ventro Group
- Brookfield Asset Management and Schoeller Allibert on the merger with IPL, creating an international sustainable packaging producer across Europe, the UK and North America with combined pro forma annual revenue of over US$1.4 billion
- Sun European Partners on its sale of Sports & Leisure Group
- PSG on the strategic growth investment in Glasswall
- Howden on its acquisition of Barnett Waddingham
- PSG Equity on the sale of Mapal to Eurazeo and PSG’s reinvestment in Mapal
- British Columbia Investment Management Corporation on the recommended cash offer and financing for BBGI Global Infrastructure SA (BBGI). The offer valued BBGI at approximately £1.062 billion
- Silver Lake on the senior facilities for its portfolio company Cegid
- Oaktree on the merger of its portfolio company Zzoomm Plc, a full fiber network operator providing fibre to the premises (FTTP) with FullFibre (a portfolio company of Basalt Infrastructure), a provider of wholesale full fibre network
- Bain Capital on its senior and second lien facilities for the acquisition of Valeo Foods and on its incremental financing for the acquisition of IDC Foods
- Wren House Infrastructure on the acquisition of Voyage Healthcare, a sector leading provider of care for people with learning disabilities, autism, brain injuries and other complex needs
- Bain Capital on the acquisition of 60% of Kantar from WPP Group
- Bain capital on its £1.2 billion takeover of esure Group
- Advent International on the acquisition of Transaction Services Group, and various bolt-on tax matters pertaining to this transaction
- The Campbell's Company on the sale of the Kettle chips business
- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on various UK matters
- Antin Infrastructure on the auction sale of their ownership in Kellas (CATS) UK pipeline network
- Graphite Capital on various structuring and fundraising matters
- Montagu Private Equity on the acquisition of OASIS Group, a leading records and information management company in Europe