Jessica Edwards

JESSICA EDWARDS advises on a broad range of private equity and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, management equity plans, and general corporate work.

Jessica trained and qualified as a solicitor in Sidley’s office in London, where she gained experience in the firm’s Employment, Corporate, Private Equity, Tax, and Global Finance practices.

Jessica’s recent experience includes advising:

• Verdane, a European investment firm, in its acquisition of Smartbox Assistive Technology Group from CareTech Group, which remains a minority shareholder.
• Pepper Advantage, a leading international credit management and technology firm backed by J.C. Flowers & Co., on its pending acquisition of Computer Loan Services.
• SINGU, a leading European provider of commercial real estate management software, on the strategic investment by K1 Investment Management, LLC, and combination with Micad.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with Chelsea FC Women and its affiliates in an investment by Seven Seven Six, the investment group founded by Alexis Ohanian.
• Apollo and certain other shareholders on the sale of the share capital of German bank Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) to TARGO Deutschland GmbH, a subsidiary of leading French cooperative bank Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.
• Great Hill Partners on the sale of BigChange, a leading field service management software company, to Simpro Group.
• nCino in Its Acquisition of FullCircl.
• IDEX Corporation in its US$1 billion acquisition of Mott Corporation.
• One Equity Partners and Buckthorn Partners in their Acquisition of Acteon Group.
• Great Hill Partners on its pending strategic majority investment in a newly formed organisation comprising Vivup, a leading provider of health and well-being benefits, and Perkbox, an award-winning global benefits and reward platform, which will combine to offer a market-leading solution for the UK’s public and private employee benefits sectors.
• Coupang, Inc. in the completion of its acquisition of the business and assets of Farfetch Holdings plc via a pre-pack administration.
• Savillex Corporation, a portfolio company of private equity fund Thompson Street Capital Partners, in its strategic acquisition of ONFAB from Foresight Capital Partners.
• Gamma Biosciences, a life sciences platform created by global investment firm KKR, in the divestiture of its operating company Univercells Technologies, a leading provider of novel biomanufacturing technologies for flexible and scalable advanced therapies and vaccine production, to Donaldson Company, Inc (NYSE: DCI).
• IDEX Corporation in its definitive agreement to acquire micro-precision technology manufacturing company Muon B.V. and its subsidiaries from Rivean Capital for a cash consideration of €700 million.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its strategic investment in AMCS, a global supplier of integrated cloud-based software and vehicle technology for the environmental, utilities, waste, recycling, and resource industries, in connection with AMCS’s acquisition of Software as a Service for EHSQ and ESG management solution provider Quentic.
• EQT Private Equity and PRO Unlimited in PRO Unlimited’s acquisition of outsourced workforce management provider Geometric Results, Inc. 
• EQT Private Equity and Verdane in the sale of Forsta, an industry-leading global provider of customer experience and market research technology, to Press Ganey, a leader in patient, member, employee, and consumer experience across the healthcare ecosystem.
• Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, in its acquisition of the treaty reinsurance brokerage operations of Willis Towers Watson for US$3.25 billion.
• KKR on its majority acquisition of Biosynth Carbosynth, a Swiss life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company.
• Crayhill Capital Management on its US$200 million financing of Heroes, a UK-based technology-driven ecommerce company.
• Invel Real Estate on the restructuring and refinancing of its acquisition of a significant interest in a publicly listed Greek property owning REIT.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners in its sale of and re-investment in Independent Clinical Services Group to Onex Corporation.
• ACPS Automotive, a technology and market leader in towbars/hitches for cars, SUVs, and vans, on the completion of its financial restructuring.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of CarTrawler.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group.
• H.I.G. Europe and its portfolio Vernacare on its acquisition of the industry leading Infection Prevention business providing an extensive range of sharps and clinical waste disposal solutions (including brands Sharpsafe®, Clinisafe®, and eXchange™) from the Frontier Medical Group (backed by Kester Capital).
• KKR on its investment and follow-on investment in music platform Artlist.
• All Seas Capital on its structured capital investment in Hakim, the UK’s leading independent chain of opticians.
• KKR on the creation of a pan-European logistics development platform.