Louise Gurly

Louise’s recent experience includes advising:

Private Equity

• Alcentra on the People & Baby Group’s financial and corporate restructuring
• Comdata, a Carlyle portfolio company, on acquiring the B2S group
• IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, on:
  • Acquiring South Watch, a boutique provider of comprehensive fund administration, outsourced CFO support, and tax preparation services to hedge fund managers in the US and Cayman Islands
  • Acquiring Agama Group, a market-leading independent regulatory compliance firm based in France and Luxembourg
  • Acquiring JGM Fund Services and JGM Fund Administration, two providers of integrated accounting, tax, fund management, and investor services
  • Leveraged acquisition of First Names
• Ardian on:
  • Exclusive negotiations to sell its majority stake in Artefact, a global provider of data and artificial intelligence consulting services to large, blue-chip enterprises, to Cinven
  • Launching a newly formed continuation fund for Syclef, previously held by Ardian Expansion Fund V
  • Acquiring Groupe Inula-Pranarom, a key player in the herbal remedies market
  • Acquiring the DRT Group (rosin and turpentine extracted from pine resin) 
  • Selling the DRT Group (rosin and turpentine extracted from pine resin) to the Firmenich group
• Bridgepoint on:
  • Acquiring Kyriba, the global leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions
  • Acquiring LumApps
• Astorg on:
  • IQ-EQ’s acquiring IQ-EQ
  • Launching of a newly formed continuation fund for IQ-EQ
• Partners Group on launching a newly formed continuation fund for Foncia Group, the European leader in residential real estate and property management services

Strategic Companies

• Pernod Ricard on selling the Becherovka brand, an iconic Czech bitter, to the Maspex group
• Consolis on disposing of its Rail division to TowerBrook, an international investment management firm
• An international media group for the acquisition of the French League 1 football domestic rights