Kevin Donegan

He has advised a wide range of public and private companies on all aspects of employee and management incentives and executive remuneration (including on the related tax, company, regulatory, trust, securities, governance and employment laws). Kevin has acted for UK, US and Asia based clients on high value and complex cross border M&A transactions, public offerings and restructurings in the financial services, leisure, retail, technology, manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors.

As well as transactions, Kevin has advised public and private companies on the design, implementation, operation and unwinding of employee and management incentive schemes, and both settlor companies and trustees in relation to employee benefit trusts.

Kevin is ranked as a Next Generation Partner for Employee Share Schemes by Legal 500 2025 and Up and Coming for Employee Share Schemes & Incentives by Chambers 2025, with clients describing Kevin as “very much the champion of clients and a very sound employee expert.”

Representative experience includes advising*

• Management of Verisure on the €13.7 billion IPO of Verisure
• British Columbia Investment Management Corporation on the £1.062 billion recommended cash offer for BBGI Global Infrastructure SA (BBGI). 
• Convex Insuranceon Convex’s new long term ownership structure led by Onex Corporation and American International Group, Inc. 
• CD&R portfolio company Vialto Partners on its consensual recapitalization and refinancing of its c. $1.7 billion of first-lien and second-lien debt facilities
• Bain Capital on its investment in HSO
• Silver Lake and its portfolio company, Cegid, on the acquisition of Shine
• Brookfield Asset Management on the $900 million acquisition of Fosber 
• SilverTree Equity on the sale of a co-controlling interest in Orbus Software to FTV Capital
• The ad hoc group of noteholders in relation to the restructuring of Petrofac
• Lone Star Funds in connection with the c. €6.4 billion sale of Novo Banco
• KLAR Partners on the acquisition of Ventro Group 
• Bain Capital on the £1.295 billion sale of esure to Ageas
• PAI Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Audiotonix holdings Ltd. from Ardian 
• General Atlantic on its investment in Wireless Logic, and through its climate growth fund BeyondNetZero on its majority investment in GRESB 
• PSG on a number of transactions, including recently on: sale of Nomentia Oy to Inflexion, sale of Signaturit to Namirial (a portfolio company of Bain Capital) and PSG’s reinvestment in the combined business, on the strategic growth investment in Glasswall, the sale of Mapal to Eurazeo and PSG’s reinvestment in Mapal, portfolio company Sign In Solutions on its acquisitions of SmartSpace Software plc and 10to8 Limited 
• InfraBridge, a division of DigitalBridge, in its combination of VXFiber and Lila Connect Ltd. with Freedom Fibre Limited (a company owned by Equitix, TalkTalk and among others)
• Morrow Sodali (a majority owned portfolio company of TPG Growth) in its acquisition of Powerscourt Limited and Powerscourt Financial Media Limited
• Globeducate (a portfolio company of Providence Equity), in its acquisition of Boundary Oak School from shareholders of Boundary Oak School
• Angstrom Sport, a specialist provider of US sports forecasting and data analytics, on its sale to Entain plc
• 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
• An ad hoc group of noteholders in relation to the consensual recapitalisation and financial restructuring of Frigoglass S.A.I.C and the group of companies formerly controlled by it (the “Frigoglass Group”)
• Advent International on portfolio company IRCA’s carve out acquisition of Kerry Group’s sweet ingredients division, and its acquisition of Global Processing Services together with Viking Global
• Churchill Capital VII, a special purpose acquisition company, in its definitive agreement for a business combination with CorpAcq Holdings
• CIIG Capital Partners II, Inc on a $573 million de-SPAC merger with Zapp Electric Vehicles
• Providence Equity Partners in its recommended cash offer for London-listed Hyve Group 
• OMERS in its acquisition of Bionic from ECI Partners
• CVC Capital Partners on its acquisition of Radwell International, and on its acquisition of Dale Partners 
• Sun European Partners on the take private of K3 Capital Group plc, and on its sale of Adler & Allan
• TPG on its $2.7 billion acquisition of Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P., a privately-held alternative investment firm managing approximately $73 billion with focus on credit and real estate strategies.
• Eutelsat on its proposed $3.4 billion business combination with OneWeb
• EO Charging on its proposed merger with First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp., a SPAC sponsored by First Reserve Corporation
• Howden Group on its acquisition of the Aston Lark Group, and on its acquisition of TigerRisk Partners
• Generation Investment Management on its equity investment of up to $600 million in Octopus Energy Group
• Sumeru Equity Partners on its investment in iProov Limited, and on its $300 million acquisition of beqom SA
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on the acquisition of OCS, as part of its simultaneous acquisition of Atalian
• Permira on its acquisition of a majority stake in Reorg Research Inc.
• Macquarie Asset Management on the acquisition of motorway service station business, Roadchef
• Bridgepoint and Bridgepoint Development Capital’s investments in Azzurri, HKA, Miller Homes, Reassured and Prescient Healthcare Group, and the acquisition of Pret A Manger by JAB Holdings for an undisclosed sum
• S4 Capital Plc on its acquisition of Firewood Marketing, Circus Marketing, Decoded Advertising and Metric Theory
• Inmarsat on its global employee and management equity incentive arrangements following its £2.6 billion acquisition by a consortium of funds including Apax, Warburg Pincus and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
• TA Associates and The Access Group on the investment in The Access Group by TA Associates and Hg that valued the Access business at approximately £1 billion
• Boston Scientific Corporation on its £3.3 billion acquisition of BTG Plc
• Vantiv Inc. (now WorldPay) on its £8 billion acquisition of WorldPay Group Plc
• WorldPay on its $43 billion merger with FIS
• Rockwell Collins on its $32 billion merger with UTC
• CME Group Inc. on its £3.9 billion acquisition of NEX Group Plc
• Travelport on its $4.4 billion acquisition by Evergreen Coast Capital (an affiliate of Elliott Management) and Siris Capital
• Micro Focus International Plc on its $8.8 billion acquisition of the software business of HP and the $2.3 billion disposal of its SUSE business to EQT Partners

*includes experience from previous firms