Joe Dowley

Joe Dowley advises financial sponsors on a range of cross-border and domestic transactions, including leveraged buyouts, co-investments, consortium deals, minority investments and carve-outs. He also counsels sponsor clients’ portfolio companies on bolt-on acquisitions, restructurings, management incentive plans and other commercial matters.

Mr. Dowley’s representations include advising:

• BlackRock as part of a consortium of investors, including Allianz and T&D Holdings, on the acquisition of Viridium Group at an enterprise value of €3.5 billion
• Hg on:
  • its significant investment in IFS and WorkWave at a US$10 billion valuation
  • its co-investment arrangement with TA Associates in connection with its investment inglobal tax software provider Sovos through the Hg Saturn 2 fund
  • its investment in Managed Markets Insights & Technology, LLC
  • its investment in Litera
  • its acquisition of Raet
  • its acquisition of Trackunit
  • the sale of Ullink SAS to Itiviti AB, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital
  • the sale of JLA to Cinven
  • its investment, alongside Bowmark Capital, in Pirum Systems
• Castik Capital on its acquisitions of:
  • Customs Support Group B.V
  • TBAuctions BV
  • AddSecure
• Pret A Manger Ltd, a portfolio company of JAB Holding Company LLC, on its acquisition of EAT Limited
• I Squared Capital on its US$3.1 billion take-private of Aggreko plc (alongside TDR Capital)
• Unily, a portfolio company of Farview Equity Partners and Silversmith Capital Partners, on a significant investment from CVC Growth Funds

Mr. Dowley also spent time on secondment at Hg and was involved in its investments in Ideagen, Norstella and Bright.