Jack Mayall

Jack’s experience includes:

• Discovery Education, a worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its acquisition of DoodleLearning.
• Northwood Investors on the Sale of 20 Gracechurch Street in London.
• Fortress Investment Group on the acquisition of Punch Pubs & Co.
• KKR on its majority acquisition of Biosynth Carbosynth, a Swiss life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company.
• Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, on expanding the shareholder base of International Schools Partnership, a leading international group of K-12 schools.
• Great Hill Partners in connection with its acquisition of Notonthehighstreet, a UK curated online marketplace.
• Great Hill Partners in connection with its investment in BigChange, the leading mobile workforce management technology company for the service and transport sectors.
• GIC in connection with a US$1 billion investment in Convex Group, led by GIC and Onex Partners.
• Dude Solutions Inc., a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management software backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in the acquisition of the asset management platform Confirm.
• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company on its acquisition of a shareholding in Rothesay Life.
• Queen Park’s Equity on its acquisition of Learndirect Limited and its subsidiaries, a provider of online learning platform and courses.
• KKR on the creation of a pan-European logistics development platform.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group.
• H.I.G. Capital and Vernacare on the acquisition of Infection Prevention.
• Macquarie on its joint venture with Sun Hung Kai. 
• Northwood Investors on its acquisition of Five Acre Square.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners in its investment in Caseking, a leading supplier of high-performance PC gaming equipment and peripherals.
• Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation, on its acquisition of Britishvolt Limited.
• Archer Daniels Midland on its acquisition of Probiotics International Limited, a UK-based provider of probiotic supplements for human, pet and production-animal use.
• TransUnion in its acquisition of Callcredit, the second largest credit reference company in the United Kingdom.
• Advising a large private equity fund on the real estate due diligence and transactional elements of a number of real estate asset-backed debt and equity facilities including:
  • a £75 million debt facility relating to several student accommodation assets in the UK;
  • a £100 million debt and equity facility backed by affordable accommodation properties; and
  • a £80 million acquisition of a large residential development site on the west coast of Cornwall, England.
    
• Acting for a mid-sized UK private equity house on the £32.6 million development financing of high-end residential developments in the City of London.
• Acting for a large-scale house-builder in the south-east of England on a number of notable development site purchases including the £60 million acquisition of a 6,000 plot estate.
• Acting regularly on the landlord and tenant aspects of a number of institutional investment management portfolios throughout the UK, including acquisition and disposal agreements, agreements for lease, leases and licenses.
• Acting on the refinancing of a portfolio of UK-held casino assets.
• Assisting on due diligence aspects of numerous M&A transactions including:
  • acting for an institutional lender in relation to the £250 million pre-pack administration sale of the largest privately owned UK student accommodation asset to a major UK developer;
  • a £335 million asset purchase of a large-scale UK oil refinery business; and
  • a major global automotive manufacturer on the pre-market vendor due diligence exercise in relation to the proposed sale of various UK subsidiaries.
• Acting for a large European credit export agency on the £40 million development financing of a combined heat and power plant serving one of the largest animal by-product rendering energy-from-waste facilities in Europe.
• Acting for a number of UK and European retail financial institutions on syndicated solar farm finance transactions.

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