Chris Dunne

Chris Dunne

Senior Practice Attorney, Corporate

Bio

Chris Dunne advises private equity institutions and their portfolio companies on a wide range of corporate matters, including domestic, cross-border and global mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, management incentive programs and other general corporate advisory matters throughout investment life cycles.

Mr. Dunne’s experience includes advising:

  • Agroberries in connection with its acquisition of BerryWorld from Argent Capital and management
  • B-Flexion and Kedge Capital in the $425 million sale of a portfolio of secondary interests to a prominent financial sponsor
  • BMS Group in its acquisition of David Roberts & Partners
  • Castik Capital:
    • in its acquisition of TBAuctions, a pan-European auctions platform
    • in TBAuctions’ acquisitions of:
      • Vavato
      • British Medical Auctions
      • PS Intressenter, Auksjonen and Bjarøy
      • Klaravik
      • Surplex
  • Hg in its disposals of:
    • its stake in Argus Media Group to General Atlantic and Argus Chairman and CEO Adrian Binks
    • Intelerad Medical Systems to a GE HealthCare affliate at an enterprise value of $2.3 billion
  • I Squared Capital in its:
    • acquisition of Enva, a recycling and resource recovery business based in the U.K. and Ireland, from Exponent Capital
    • establishment of its:
      • Cube Cold platform, which acquires cold storage and logistics assets
      • Cube Green Energy platform, which acquires operational onshore wind assets
      • nLighten platform, which acquires operational data centres
  • Montagu Private Equity in the separation of its portfolio company DEAS into two business units and subsequent disposal of (i) the real estate services business of DEAS to PHM Denmark, a portfolio company of Norvestor, and (ii) the asset management services business of DEAS to Fokus Nordic AB, a portfolio company of BlackFin Capital Partners
  • Refresco Group in British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and PAI Partners’ sale of a majority stake in Refresco to KKR & Co. Inc.
  • Staysure Group in connection with an investment by ICG Europe in Staysure

Mr. Dunne spent eight months on secondment to I Squared Capital.

Credentials

Education

  • Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2018
  • LL.B., The University of Nottingham, 2016

Admissions

  • England & Wales

Chris Dunne

Senior Practice Attorney, Corporate
christopher.dunne@skadden.com