Clifford Chance
Victoria Ho specialises in cross-border and domestic M&A, with a particular focus on financial sponsor transactions.
Victoria advises international and domestic private equity and infrastructure funds on a wide range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, carve-outs, management equity arrangements, JV and minority investments and corporate restructurings. She has worked across a range of sectors including consumer goods & retail, services, technology, healthcare and infrastructure. She also advises sponsors and investors in connection with complex secondary transactions. Victoria has spent time on secondment at Permira.
- KKR on its US$750m investment in transport electrification and battery storage company Zenobē Energy
- CD&R on its US$4bn P2P of UDG Healthcare plc
- Rothesay on the acquisition of a portfolio of fund interest (as part of the £4 billion buy-in with the Cooperative Pension Scheme)
- GIP on the full exit of its interest in Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm (largest operational offshore wind farm globally at the time), by way of multiple stake sales to several financial investors
- Infracapital on its acquisition of Recharge from Fortum (previously Fortum’s Nordic EV charging platform)
- Permira on the acquisition of Neuraxpharm from APAX
- HSBC on a series of large secondary transactions comprised of direct sales and sales to newly formed HSBC managed vehicles totalling in excess of $2bn of commitments
- Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa on the acquisition of the Allegro Group and its subsequent IPO
- Partners Group on its investment in Breitling
- Infracapital and AMP Capital on acquisition and subsequent sale of Adven Group
- Permira on the sale of Dr Martens
- Infracapital on its investment in Gridserve
- Macquarie Infrastructure, Allianz Capital Partners and VER (the Finnish state pension fund) on the acquisition of Elenia from 3i Infrastructure
- ICGSE on its GP-led investment in certain assets of Mid Europa Funds III and IV
- Permira on the carve-out acquisition of Synamedia from Cisco
- WeddingWire, an investee company of Permira, on the acquisition of Hitched
- a financial institution on the sale of a portfolio of LP interests to Coller Capital
- Permira and alterDomus (aD) on their acquisition of Cortland Capital Markets LLC
- Cinven on the acquisition of Tinsa from Advent International
- Baupost in connection with the Bakkavor IPO
- Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners on the sale of a 49% stake in Redexis Gas to USS and ATP
- Infracapital and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners on the sale of their investment in Affinity Water to a consortium comprised of HICL Infrastructure Company Limited, DIR Infrastructure and Allianz Capital Partners
- Last Mile Infrastructure, an investee company of Infracapital, on their investment in Rendesco and bolt-on acquisition of Icosa Water
- Cinven on the disposal of Enserve
- Infracapital on the refinancing and subsequent sale of Red Funnel, the Isle of Wight ferry company
- Partners Group on its acquisition of a portfolio of LP interests from USS
- Infracapital on the sale of Alticom to Cellnex
- Permira on its disposal of the All3Media business
- abrdn on the sale of a portfolio of LP interests to Golding Capital
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- Clifford Chance, London
- +44 207006 6022
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- Practice area M&A corporate