Craig Jourdan joined the corporate and private equity transactions group of Ropes & Gray’s London office as an associate in 2018. Craig has experience acting on a broad range of corporate and M&A matters in the UK and internationally, with specific experience acting for private equity sponsors in relation to their investment transactions, equity arrangements, restructurings and day-to-day corporate needs.

Experience

  • Advising Nature Infrastructure Capital on its investment in Eco Stor, a leading battery energy storage developer in Germany
  • Advising Partners Group, HarbourVest and AlpInvest on multiple co-investment opportunities
  • Advising Humble Group on its acquisition of the Solent Group, a snacks and household goods maker
  • Advised Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) subsidiary Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation on its acquisition of select divisions of Maitland's fund administration business
  • Advising a leading US private equity sponsor in connection with the restructuring of one of its portfolio companies
  • Advising ERM, the world’s largest pure-play sustainability consultancy, and the ERM Partner shareholders, on the sale of ERM to KKR, a leading global investment firm
  • Acting for Bridgepoint on its investment in Matrix SCM, a leading managed service provider for the outsourced hiring and management of temporary local government staff in the UK
  • Acting for Avista Capital on the sale of Trimb Healthcare, a leading consumer health care company based in Stockholm, for SEK 3.4 billion
  • Acting for Duke Street on York-based Great Rail Journeys’ acquisition of Chicago-based Vacation By Rail, a U.S. provider of railway holidays 
  • Acting for Silverfleet Capital on the acquisition of CARE Fertility, the UK’s leading fertility services provider
  • Acting for TPG Capital, and its portfolio company Beaver-Visitec on its acquisition of PhysIOL Group SA
  • Acting for Epiris on its acquisition of Bonhams, the global auction house, from private shareholders
  • Acting for Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a leading health care investment firm, in its acquisition of Abzena plc, a Cambridge, UK-based biopharmaceutical services company

Areas of Practice

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