Andrej Wolf

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Wolf’s practice focuses on private equity. He represents a broad range of private equity houses, financial sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, secondaries, exits, carve-out transactions, minority and growth capital investments in a variety of sectors and geographies. Andrej has advised, amongst others, such global private equity players as Accel-KKR, AE Industrial Partners, Apax Partners, EW Healthcare Partners, HGGC, Madison Dearborn Partners, Peak Rock Capital, Summit Partners, Sun European Partners as well as Kroll.

Select highlights of his transactions include the representation of:

Growth Capital and Minority Investments

• Summit Partners in connection with its $30 million investment in ImagenAI, a leading provider of AI-powered editing solutions for professional photographers.
• Summit Partners in connection with its $75 million investment in Optimove, a leader in CRM marketing.
• Summit Partners on its investment in GRESB, B.V., a subscription-based provider of environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark data for real assets.
• Summit Partners on its investment in LearnUpon Limited, a cloud-based learning management system.
• Summit Partners on its investment in Red Points Solutions, S.L., a provider of online IP infringement detection and removal services.
• Summit Partners on its investment in Syncron International A.B., a provider of cloud-based after-sales service solutions.
• Summit Partners on its investment in Immersive Labs Holdings Limited, a cybersecurity education software company.
• Summit Partners on its investment in Odoo S.A., a provider of open source business software for small and medium sized businesses.
• Summit Partners on its investment in and other transactions in connection with Darktrace Limited, an AI company specialising in cyber security and defence systems.
• Summit Partners on its investment in Akeneo, S.A.S., a product-experience software provider that serves retailers and brands.
• Summit Partners on its co-investment, alongside Bridgepoint SAS, in Calypso Technology, Inc., a US-based leading provider of capital markets software.
• PeopleCert International on its minority growth equity capital raise from FTV Capital, bridge and bond financing as well as its concurrent acquisition of Axelos Limited from the Cabinet Office (on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government) in the United Kingdom and Capita plc.

Leveraged Buyouts and Acquisitions

• Sartorius AG on its acquisition of Albumedix, a leader in the field of recombinant albumin-based solutions, from private investors.
• Sun European Partners on its acquisition of the DD Group, a UK and Ireland-focused dental and medical aesthetics distributor and service provider, from IDH Group (a portfolio company of Palamon Capital Partners).
• Sun European Partners on its acquisition of the Bellrock Group, a leading provider of specialist risk focused workplace and property management solutions in the UK.
• Flender, a Carlyle portfolio company, in its acquisition of Finnish wind turbine gearbox manufacturer Moventas from investor N4 partners.
• Dragan Šolak on the investment/consortium arrangements between Dragan Šolak, Henrik Kraft and Rasmus Ankersen in the founding of Sport Republic, to acquire the controlling stake in Southampton Football Club.
• Sun European Partners on its acquisition on Adler & Allan group, a leading UK environmental risk reduction specialist, from LDC.
• Sun European Partners on its acquisition of Vetrerie Riunite, specialists in glass parts of electrical household appliances.
• Peak Rock Capital on its acquisition of Halo Foods, a UK-based snack bars manufacturer, from Nimbus.
• Kroll (a portfolio company of Stone Point Capital, Further Global and Permira) on its acquisition of Blackrock Expert Services Group, a UK-headquartered specialist in disputes and advisory services.
• Kroll and Prime Clerk (a member of the Duff & Phelps group) on their acquisition of the Lucid Group, a leading provider of securities solicitation and loan and bond services solutions.
• Apax Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in matchesfashion.com, a UK-based luxury fashion brand.
• Portfolio companies of HGGC (including Davies Group, Neutraceutical Corporation, Beauty Industry Group and Selligent), EW Healthcare Partners (including EUSA Pharma and Cognate BioServices), Accel-KKR (including SmartCommunications and Kerridge Commercial Systems), Summit Partners (including Viroclinics Biosciences) on numerous leveraged acquisitions and add-on transactions.

Secondaries and Disposals

• A consortium of financial sponsors on the sale of a minority interest in Intralot US Securities, the holding company for Intralot’s US business, Intralot Inc, to the majority shareholder, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intralot, valued at approximately €121.3m.
• Summit Partners on its disposal of a minority position in Relex Solutions Oy to TCV Capital.
• Summit Partners on its disposal of the Normec Group, a technology-enabled provider of testing, inspection and certification services, to Astorg.
• HGGC on its disposal of Selligent, a sophisticated B2C marketing platform, to Campaign Monitor Group.
• Pamplona Capital Management on its disposal of Partner in Pet Food, a leading European manufacturer of branded and own-label pet food products, to Cinven.
• Sun European Partners on its disposal of DBApparel, the designer and manufacturer of branded ladies and men’s intimate apparel, to HanesBrands Inc.
• Mid Europa Partners on its disposal of the SBB/Telemach Group, a cable television and broadband internet service group, to funds managed and advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Carve-Out Transactions

• Sun European Partners on its acquisition of Finlays’ horticultural business.
• Sun European Partners on its acquisition of the assets and business of Robertshaw (formerly, Invensys Appliance division), a global design, engineering and manufacturing company that sells product solutions to the white goods industry, from Schneider Electric.
• Sun European Partners on its acquisition of the assets and business of Dreams plc, the United Kingdom's largest beds retailer, by way of pre-pack administration.

Restructurings and Recapitalisations

• Cerberus on the refinancing and recapitalisation of Haya through an English Scheme of Arrangement, including the creation of a new corporate structure in which Cerberus retains the majority shareholding.
• The sponsor of Spanish bank, WiZink Bank on the restructuring of the €515m 6.5% / 7.25% holdco senior secured PIK toggle notes due 2023 issued by Singaporean issuer, Mulhacen Pte Ltd and the raising of €250m new capital for WiZink.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Wolf received his LPC from the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice in 2005, his LLB from the University of Durham in 2004 and his ERASMUS, Law degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2003. Prior to joining Milbank, he spent over 13 years practicing law at a leading US law firm in its London office.

He is fluent in English, Russian and Ukrainian and speaks basic German.