Steven Hannah

Mr. Hannah’s recent representations include advising:

• funds advised by Castik Capital in the sale of approximately 25% of portfolio company Waterlogic Holdings Limited to British Columbia Investment Management Corporation; 
• EPIC funds managed by Castik Capital in their acquisition of majority stakes in IPAN GmbH and Delegate;
• Montagu Private Equity LLP and the other shareholders of Equatex in its €354 million disposal to Computershare;
• Hg in matters including:
  • as lead investor in the US$5.3 billion buyout of Visma, a leading provider of business software in the Nordic region. This was Europe’s largest-ever software buyout; and
  • its investment in Allocate;
• Sovos Compliance, LLC, a portfolio company of Hg, in its acquisitions of TrustWeaver AB and Paperless;
• Open International, a Montagu portfolio company, in its acquisition of Transactor Global Solutions; and
• CogitalGroup, an Hg portfolio company, in its acquisition of Wilkins Kennedy.

Mr. Hannah’s representations prior to joining Skadden include advising:

• Hg in its acquisitions of Blick Rothenberg, the former BPO Division of Visma and Baldwins (collectively to form the Cogital Group), Kinapse, Parts Alliance and Sovos Compliance;
• Montagu Private Equity in its acquisitions of DEAS, Open International, Equatex, Accurate Equity, CAP and the University of Law;
• EPIC funds managed by Castik Capital in the acquisition of Waterlogic and Angel Springs;
• EPIC funds portfolio company Waterlogic in its acquisition of OneSource;
• CVC Capital Partners in leading a consortium including Temasek Holdings and Vatera Healthcare Partners on their acquisition of a controlling stake in Alvogen;
• Qatar Investment Authority in the acquisition, together with BRF Foods, of approximately 80 percent of the shares of Banvit Bandırma Vitaminli Yem Sanayi, a Turkish-listed company operating in the poultry sector, from its controlling shareholders;
• Rhone Capital in its acquisition of ASK Chemicals;
• the founders and management of Avast software in the sale of a 40 percent interest to CVC Capital Partners;
• LDC in its equity investment into a multinational financial services firm; and
• Oaktree Capital Management in its disposal of R&R Ice Cream.