Andrew Reilly

Andrew’s experience includes advising:

• a consortium led by Apollo Global Management Inc. in connection with the long-term strategic investment entered into with The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for an underlying real estate portfolio valued at $5.5 billion.
• Italgas on its acquisition of a 100% stake in DEPA Infrastructure S.A., a predominant natural gas distribution operator in Greece, for €733 million following a privatization auction process led by HRADF and HELPE.
• the ad hoc committees of noteholders in the €800m debt-for-equity swap restructuring of Codere
• OneWeb on its restructuring and its acquisition by a consortium of investors led by HM Government and Bharti Global
• Turkey Wealth Fund and T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. in relation to the restructuring of the holding company shareholder arrangements, related debt facilities provided by Ziraat Bank and TWF’s agreement to acquire 26.2% of the shares of Turkcell by entering into a series of transaction agreements with, among others, Telia Company, LetterOne, Çukurova Holding and Ziraat.
• Otto Group on the partnership with Advent International for Hermes UK and Hermes Germany. As a result of the transaction, Advent acquires a 75% stake in Hermes UK and a 25% stake in Hermes Germany
• SAZKA Group on its offer to acquire OPAP (Greece’s largest gaming company) for a valuation in excess of €3 billion
• Njord Partners on the creation of a joint venture with an UHNWI to acquire a Portuguese airline and accept the contribution of other aircraft assets
• on the acquisition financing for Advent’s takeover of Cobham
• on the acquisition financing for Charterhouse’s acquisition of Tarsus
• on the acquisition financing for Aptean’s takeover of Sanderson Group
• the Coca-Cola company on the $27bn merger of Europe’s three main bottlers of Coca-Cola products to create the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler*
• Warburg Pincus, Temasek and Singtel on the acquisition of 25% of Airtel Africa, a telecommunications and mobile payment services group with a valuation of $5bn*
• AMEX on AMEX GBT’s takeover of Hogg Robinson*
• Akuo Energy on the sale of a 49% stake in its Montenegrin wind farm business to a financial sponsor*
• Sabre Corporation on the sale of Lastminute.com to Bravofly Rumbo Group*
• a UK listed global materials technology company in respect of an aborted takeover by a US financial sponsor*
• First Reserve on its bid for a mid-stream oil and gas pipeline services company*

 Recognition & Accomplishments

Andrew has recently been recognized as a ‘Key Lawyer’ by Legal 500.

All deals marked * were completed at prior firms.