Benjamin Davies

Mr. Davies also regularly counsels financial sponsor-backed portfolio companies on bolt-on transactions, corporate restructurings and recapitalisations, management incentive schemes, senior management changes and other strategic and day-to-day corporate matters.

His experience spans a range of sectors, including extensive work on transactions in the software, data and analytics, fintech, life sciences, technology and business services sectors.

His representations have included advising: 

• Hg on a number of matters, including:
  • its acquisition of Litera, a leading provider of legal workflow and workspace technology
  • its disposal of Kinapse, a leading advisory and operational solutions provider to the global life sciences industry
  • its acquisition of CaseWare, a global leader in audit and assurance software
  • its acquisition of Prophix, a global leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software
  • the acquisitions by its portfolio company, Litera, of DocsCorp, Clocktimizer, Kira Systems and Upper Sigma
  • the acquisition by its portfolio company, Prophix, of Sigma Conso, a CPM software and services provider
  • its acquisition of Trackunit, a specialist in software-led telematics solutions for the construction market
  • its further investment in Litera
  • the acquisition by its portfolio company, Trackunit, of the Industrial Internet of Things business of ZTR
  • its acquisition of TrustQuay (now known as Quantios), a leading technology provider to the global trust, corporate and fund services industry
  • the merger of its portfolio company, Norstella, with Citeline (formerly Pharma Intelligence), to form a $5 billion global pharmaceutical technology company
  • the combination of its portfolio company, Trustquay (now known as Quantios), with Viewpoint, a leading entity and wealth management solution provider
  • its significant investment in IFS, a leading provider of cloud enterprise software and industrial AI applications
  • the significant investment by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in Trackunit
• FTV Capital on:
  • its growth equity investment in N2F, a leading provider of spend management software
  • its significant equity investment in Carbon Underwriting, a market-leading delegated authority underwriting specialist with its own Lloyd’s syndicate
• Triple Private Equity on:
  • its acquisition of SmartSearch, leading U.K. provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) software
  • its acquisition of Legal Benchmarking Group, a provider of leading data and insights for law firms globally
  • the acquisition by the Legal Benchmarking Group of The Lawyer, a leading news, intelligence and data-driven insight provider for the legal industry
  • the acquisition by SmartSearch of Credas Technologies, a leading provider of identity verification solutions for the legal and property sectors
  • its acquisition of Derivia Intelligence, a leading provider of specialist data and insights to investment banks, hedge funds, issuers and other market participants
  • its simultaneous acquisitions and combination of Euromoney and Extel, two market-leading providers of data, intelligence and certifications to global financial services firms
• BlackRock on its acquisition of Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data
• Corient on its acquisition of Stonehage Fleming to create (in coordination with its acquisition of Stanhope Capital Group) a $430 billion independent ultra-high-net-worth wealth manager
• Castik Capital on:
  • its acquisition and combination of two IP management services and software companies, IPAN and Delegate
  • the acquisition by the combined IPAN/Delegate business of IPFolio, a provider of IP management software
  • the merger of the IPAN/Delegate business with CPA Global
  • its acquisition of AddSecure, a leading European provider of premium solutions for secure data and critical communications
  • its acquisition, alongside Abry Partners, of Reward Gateway, a global HR technology and employee engagement company, and Xexec, a provider of employee reward and recognition services for large corporations
• I Squared Capital in connection with its acquisition of Arriva, a leading provider of passenger transport across Europe
• JAB Holding Company and its portfolio company, Pinnacle Pet Group, a leading pan-European pet insurance provider, on:
  • its acquisition of Animal Friends, a U.K.-based pet insurance provider
  • its partnership with Correlation to invest in Waggel, Vet-AI, Biscuit, Kozoo and other ventures in the pet insurance industry
• Farview Equity Partners and Silversmith Capital Partners, on a significant investment from CVC Growth Funds in their portfolio company, Unily, a leading employee experience platform
• Intel Corporation on its $4.2 billion spin-off and joint venture with TPG Capital to form the independent cybersecurity company McAfee
• Vantiv, Inc. on its $10.4 billion acquisition of Worldpay Group plc to form a global payments leader
• CME Group Inc. on its $6 billion acquisition of NEX Group plc to form a leading company for futures, cash and OTC markets

Mr. Davies also spent 12 months on secondment at Hg and was involved in its investments in Argus Media, Silverfin, smartTrade Technologies, Evaluate, Visma, Citation and Howden.