Carol’s experience in 2022 includes advising:

• Lumen Technologies on the $1.8 billion proposed divestiture of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business including its terrestrial and subsea networks, data centres and network equipment in the region, to London-headquartered Colt Technology Services. Lumen is a US-headquartered multinational telecommunications company that offers network services, security, cloud solutions, voice and managed services. Colt is a global digital infrastructure company with a network that connects across Europe, Asia and North America's largest business hubs;
• Longstanding client, Manzanita Capital, Ben Gorham (founder) and another minority shareholder on the sale of a 77% stake in Byredo AB to Puig.  Spanish conglomerate Puig owns Carolina Herrera, Charlotte Tilbury and Jean Paul Gaultier as well as the fragrance licences of Christian Louboutin and Comme des Garçons. This is one of the largest luxury beauty and fragrance transactions of the last several years in terms of multiple paid. Manzanita is a specialist investor focused on developing luxury and premium niche brands including Diptyque, Susanne Kaufmann and Malin + Goetz;
• Driscoll’s Inc. via its Dutch subsidiary in connection with its acquisition of Berry Gardens Limited from Berry Gardens Growers Limited (“Berry Gardens”). Driscoll’s is the global market leader and the world’s largest berry company. Berry Gardens is the UK’s largest berry grower co-operative. The acquisition reinforces and strengthens the existing relationship between Driscoll’s and the Berry Gardens group, as Berry Gardens has grown, distributed and marketed Driscoll’s varieties on an exclusive basis in the UK for more than 20 years;
• the selling shareholders of Easyflyers Logistics Limited on the sale of 25% of their shares to MNX Global Holdings. Easyflyers Logistics provides specialist logistics services for global inward, outward and transit movements of freight.  Private equity-backed MNX also provides specialized time, temperature and security sensitive transportation and logistics services worldwide;
• Farfetch Limited, a leading global platform for the luxury fashion industry, on its acquisition of Los Angeles-based Violet Grey, a luxury beauty retailer of brands such as Augustinus Bader and Westman Atelier, and a launchpad for many of today’s iconic beauty brands; and
• BT Americas Inc. (BT), a leading provider of networked IT services and subsidiary of BT Group Plc, on the sale of its Diamond IP division to security solutions company, Cygna Labs Corp., a subsidiary of N3K Group GmbH. This deal represented one of the first significant M&A instructions from BT outside of the UK.

Her 2021 experience includes advising:  

• Space NK Group LLC, Space NK Limited and Space NK USA LLC, three investee companies of Manzanita Capital, on the competitive auction sale of the prestigious “Eve Lom” brand to Yatsen Holding Limited (NYSE: YSG), a leader in the Chinese beauty market;
• United Perfumes on the negotiation of exclusive global license and distribution agreements for the Alexander McQueen, Richard Ginori and Paul Smith brands pursuant to which United Perfumes will design, manufacture and distribute home fragrance, candle and personal fragrance products under these iconic brand names; and
• Kape Technologies plc on its US$936 million agreement to acquire premium consumer VPN business ExpressVPN. This transaction involved a global BCLP team from London, the US, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Brussels and Dubai. We simultaneously advised on Kape’s associated US$354 million underwritten equity offering and US$475 million loan facilities. Carol also previously advised Kape on its significantly over-subscribed and up-scaled US$115 million cash-box placing and separate retail offer for subscription through online platform PrimaryBid.