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Private Capital
We advised CI Financial and its U.S. private wealth advisory
arm CORIENT on its acquisitions of wealth managers
Avalon Advisors, LaFerla Group, Intercontinental Wealth
Advisors, and Windsor Wealth Management.
The acquisitions boosted the company’s U.S. assets under
management to over US$155 billion at the end of 2023.
Lawyers in our New York o昀케ce led these transactions,
with support from our Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. o昀케ces and
our employee bene昀椀ts, employment, funds, privacy and
cybersecurity, and regulatory practices.
We advised Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset
manager, on its acquisition of a majority stake in CReators
of the Outside WorlD, a pan-European provider of cycling
infrastructure and sustainable street furniture products.
The transaction marks Tikehau Capital’s 昀椀rst private
equity acquisition in the Netherlands.
Lawyers in our Amsterdam o昀케ce led the transaction, with
support from our Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Munich,
and Paris o昀케ces and our banking, employee bene昀椀ts,
intellectual property, litigation, privacy and cybersecurity,
real estate, and tax practices.
We advised Crescent Capital Partners, an Australian
private equity 昀椀rm, as sponsor on the establishment
of a single-asset continuation vehicle for Healthcare
Australia, a company that provides workforce solutions
and direct care services in the health care industry with
institutional backing from domestic and international
secondaries participants.
This transaction represents one of the largest ever
Australian fund secondaries transactions.
Lawyers in our Sydney o昀케ce led the transaction, with
support from our private equity and tax practices.
We advised Wendel, a French investment company,
on its €965 million acquisition of the Scalian group,
a leading European engineering consulting 昀椀rm in
digital transformation, project management, and
operational performance.
The acquisition enables the Scalian group to achieve
revenue of €1.5 billion over the next 昀椀ve years and
bolsters its abilities to address issues in supply chain
and digital engineering, including architecture, system
applications, big data, and AI.
Lawyers in our Paris o昀케ce led the transaction.
