Andrew N. Cebula

ANDREW CEBULA advises on commercial and transactional matters. His main areas of focus are mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, securities offerings and general corporate work.

Andrew recently spent six months on secondment at Centerbridge Partners, a private investment firm focused on private equity, credit, and real estate investments.

Andrew trained and qualified as a solicitor in Sidley’s London office, where he also gained experience in the firm’s global finance, financial services regulatory and capital markets practices. 

Andrew has recently acted for:

• Pepper Advantage, a leading international credit management and technology firm backed by J.C. Flowers & Co., on its pending acquisition of Computer Loan Services.
• SINGU, a leading European provider of commercial real estate management software, on the strategic investment by K1 Investment Management, LLC, and combination with Micad.
• Preservation Capital Partners in the sale of its majority stake in HBC to Bridgepoint.
• J.C. Flowers & Co., a private investment firm dedicated to investing in the financial services industry, in its acquisition of Pepper Advantage.
• Grain & Protein Technologies, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners, in the cross-border carve-out acquisition of the agribusiness equipment operations of Munters FoodTech.
• Great Hill Partners on the sale of BigChange, a leading field service management software company, to Simpro Group.
• Great Hill Partners on its pending strategic majority investment in a newly formed organisation comprising Vivup, a leading provider of health and well-being benefits, and Perkbox, an award-winning global benefits and reward platform, which will combine to offer a market-leading solution for the UK’s public and private employee benefits sectors.
• Bilkul Football in its acquisition of West Bromwich Albion Football Club.
• Discovery Education, a worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its acquisition of DoodleLearning.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its strategic investment in AMCS, a global supplier of integrated cloud-based software and vehicle technology for the environmental, utilities, waste, recycling, and resource industries, in connection with AMCS’s acquisition of Software as a Service for EHSQ and ESG management solution provider Quentic.
• EQT Private Equity and Verdane in the sale of Forsta, an industry-leading global provider of customer experience and market research technology, to Press Ganey, a leader in patient, member, employee, and consumer experience across the healthcare ecosystem.
• EQT Private Equity and PRO Unlimited in PRO Unlimited’s acquisition of outsourced workforce management provider Geometric Results, Inc.
• EQT Partners Inc. in the merger of its portfolio company, FocusVision, with Confirmit, a portfolio company of Verdane.
• French growth fund InfraVia in leading an investment round in Jobandtalent, the European workforce-as-a-service platform.
• Dude Solutions Inc., a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management software backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in the acquisition of the asset management platform Confirm.
• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company on its acquisition of a shareholding in Rothesay Life.
• Altamont Capital on its acquisition of Accelerant, a vertically integrated insurance company focused on UK and EU SMEs, and the establishment of Accelerant’s bolt-on buy-out platform.
• RDL Realisation plc, a premium listed investment fund, on its proposals to accelerate the repayment of the Zero Dividend Preference Shares issued by its subsidiary, RDLZ Realisation plc (RDLZ).
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on its investment in GBA Group, a provider of end-to-end vehicle logistics services to the global automotive and shipping industries.
• Prudential Financial, Inc. on the acquisition of a London-based quantitative hedge fund manager – Wadhwani Asset Management.
• China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation on its acquisition of Chaucer from The Hanover Insurance Group for US$865 million, which was named as a 2019 “Deal of the Year” by the China Business Law Journal.
• Permira Debt Managers Group as investment manager to their debut €362.5 million Providus CLO I (Permira Debt Managers’ first CLO 2.0 and the first European CLO to feature ESG Criteria).
• TransUnion on its acquisition of Callcredit, which was named “Private Equity Deal of the Year (Over $1B)” by The M&A Advisor at the 11th Annual International M&A Awards.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition of Bosal ACPS, a leading manufacturer of tow bars for original equipment manufacturers and suppliers and for the aftermarket in Europe.
• Bank of Cyprus in relation to its admission to the official list of the London Stock Exchange.
• A U.S. headquartered financial services group in relation to a restructuring of its European operations and insurance business.
• A U.S.-based real estate investment trust in relation to an internal reorganization of its UK operations.
• Rosslyn Data Technologies plc (AIM listed) on its placings, open offer and acquisition of a UK-based software technology company that specializes in capturing and organizing unstructured data.
• Tai United Holdings Limited, a Chinese company, on its £112 million sale of a prime commercial property in West London.
• Wells Fargo Bank N.A. on its circa £300 million acquisition and development of a new European headquarters based in London.
• A U.S.-based private equity firm in its acquisition of a UK supplier and manufacturer of laboratory equipment.
• A newly established independent merchant bank headquartered in Turkey and the UK in relation to an internal restructuring.
• Several UK, U.S. and European organizations in connection with general corporate matters.