Rohit Pisal is a partner in the firm’s Tax Department. He advises on a variety of tax issues in connection with a broad range of U.K. and international corporate, financing and private fund structuring transactions with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings, reorganisations and other corporate transactions.
Rohit’s recent matters include:
- Apollo Global Management in its £500 million acquisition, alongside other investors, of a minority stake in Motor Fuel Group (“MFG”) from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
- Bain Capital in:
- its acquisition of a controlling stake in Namirial from Ambienta
- the financing aspects of its acquisition of SO.MA.CI.S.
- D1 Capital Partners, as lead investor, in the $1 billion equity investment in Kraken
- Dana Incorporated in its approximately $2.7 billion sale of its Off-Highway business to Allison Transmission Holdings
- EasyPark, a portfolio company of Vitruvian Partners, in its acquisition of Parkopedia
- ECI Partners in a single-asset GP-led secondary transaction involving CSL, including the formation of a continuation fund totaling £600 million
- Graanul Invest, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, on the consent solicitation to extend the maturity of its existing €630 million notes and its €100 million super senior revolving credit facility
- ICG on the equity arrangements and tax structuring aspects of its acquisition of an interest in Lomond
- La Doria S.p.A., a portfolio company of Investindustrial, in its issuance of €525 million of high-yield bonds and entry into an €85 million revolving credit facility
- Mitel Networks Corporation in its successful chapter 11 process which trimmed the company’s debt by $1.15 billion, reduced its annual interest payments by about $135 million and provided approximately $125 million of new funding to support its future operations
- Radius Global Infrastructure, a portfolio company of EQT and PSP, on the financing aspects of numerous transactions, including:
- on the financing aspects of its acquisition of a portfolio of 145 Italian property assets
- in the financing aspects of its acquisition, via an affiliate, of 358 Italian digital antennae system (DAS) assets
- Shrieve Chemical Company, a portfolio company of Gemspring Capital, in its acquisition of Carbon Chemicals Group
- Stonepeak on the financing for its acquisition of Forgital Group from global investment firm Carlyle
- TDR Capital in:
- its acquisition of Acqua & Sapone from H.I.G. Capital and the founding Barbarossa family
- the refinancing of the BPP Group’s existing third-party debt financing arrangements
- its majority investment in CorpAcq
- the acquisition of Acqua & Sapone from H.I.G. Capital and the founding Barbarossa family
- its £275 million all-cash acquisition of Escode
- Värde Partners in a single asset GP-led secondary transaction involving Vía Célere, including the formation of a continuation vehicle totaling at €450 million
- Vitruvian Partners in the sale of its majority stake in Accountor Software to KKR
- Warburg Pincus in its acquisition, alongside Temasek, of Specialist Risk Group
- Westbury Street Holdings (WSH), a portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in its acquisition of The Genuine Dining Co. from existing shareholders
