Joshua Nicholson

Experience

• Advised Partners Group on its investment in GHO Capital Partners’ portfolio company Sterling Pharma Solutions, a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization
• Advised Astorg on its acquisition of the Fastmarkets business division of Euromoney Institutional Investor, as part of a £1.61bn acquisition of the financial publisher of Euromoney by Astorg and Epiris
• Advised a consortium of private equity fund and DFI investors in relation to the purchase of subordinated convertible promissory notes and warrants to purchase stock in a California incorporated renewable energy solutions provider*
• Advised a Singapore based private equity fund in relation to the formation of debt based investment vehicle that will invest in the South African education industry*
• Advised Proparco in relation to its direct participation in the Series E-1 funding round of d.light Design Inc.*
• Part of the team that advised African Infrastructure Investment Fund 3 GP Proprietary Limited (in its capacity as the ultimate general partner of the African Infrastructure Fund 3 en commandite partnership) in relation to the establishment of a joint venture with management and the acquisition of a Tier IV data centre in Ghana through the joint venture*
• Part of the team that advised Ninety One SA Proprietary Limited, Investec Bank Limited, Standard Chartered Limited, Johannesburg Branch, Standard Chartered (Mauritius) Limited and Nedbank Limited in relation to the acquisition and corporate restructuring (including a debt-to-equity conversion) of the Tsebo group*
• Part of the team that advised the Marsh McLennan group in relation to the South African leg of its global restructuring implemented to integrate the recently acquired Jardine Lloyd Thompson group into its corporate structure*

*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray