Nicole Janssen

Recent experience includes advising:

• proALPHA on the acquisition of Empolis Group, a provider of cloud-based and AI-assisted software products for intelligent decision support.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of ENIT, a leading provider for energy management and carbon tracking.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the sale of Pro Gamers Group to HAL Investments and Management.
• proALPHA on the acquisition of CP Corporate Planning AG, a provider of software for operative controlling, integrated financial and performance planning, and consolidation.
• Rodenstock Group, a Compass Partners portfolio company, on their acquisition by Apax Funds.
• proALPHA Group on the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Böhme & Weihs GmbH Industrieholding, on the participation in SKILL Software and on the acquisition of curecomp Software Services GmbH.
• ARDIAN France S.A. on the acquisition of a majority stake in the GBA Group.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of TonerPartner Group.
• Rodenstock Group, a German manufacturer of high-quality progressive lenses, on their refinancing.
• proALPHA Group on the acquisition of C4BI – Competence for Business Intelligence GmbH.
• proALPHA Group on the acquisition of tisoware Group.
• Losberger De Boer Group on its financial and operative restructuring. 
• OpCapita on its sale of NKD Group to TDR Capital. 
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on its acquisition of Gundlach Automotive Corporation.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of Caseking Group as well as subsequent add-on acquisitions.
• Intermediate Capital Group on the acquisition of proALPHA Group.
• Funds advised by Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of Losberger Group and the subsequent add-on acquisition of De Boer Group.
• Capiton on the sale of Schur Flexibles Group.
• The founder of Canyon Bicycles on the sale of a minority interest to TSG Consumer Partners.
• Silverfleet Capital Partners on the sale of Kalle Group.
• Rodenstock on the engagement of Compass Partners International as an additional investor.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners, Indigo Capital and Spandex management on the sale of Spandex Group to Chequers Capital.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the sale of Hofmann Menü Group to Partners Group.
• Gryphon Investors’ portfolio company Synteract, Inc. on the acquisition of Harrison Clinical Research Group.
• Sun Capital Partners on the acquisition of Kobusch-Sengewald Group.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of Eismann Group from ICG Capital.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of Spandex Group from Gerber Scientific, Inc.
• Irving Place Capital’s portfolio company Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc., on its acquisition of CD Cartondruck AG.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the sale of PolymerLatex Group to Yule Catto & Co plc.

 *Some of the above matters were handled by Nicole prior to joining Sidley

• Contribution to “Women, Business and the Law 2020”, World Bank Group.
• Corporate advice to the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) e.V.