Kirkland & Ellis, AZB & Partners, and Pinsent Masons advise on Long Path Partners’ £339.5 million take-private of Idox plc.

Idox is a leading supplier of specialist information management software and geospatial data solutions to a wide array of sectors across the UK and internationally, including government, engineering, transport, and property amongst others.

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Frankel UK Bidco Limited (a newly formed company indirectly owned by funds controlled by Long Path Partners) on the recommended all cash acquisition of the entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital of Idox plc. The acquisition price values the entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital of Idox at approximately £339.5 million.

The Kirkland team includes corporate lawyers Stuart Boyd, Victoria Legg, Sham Khan, Teresa Carty, Sher Lin Wong, Khadar Jama and Kate Hammond; debt finance lawyers Lloyd Robertson-Jones, Benjamin Lewis and Brent Tan; technology & IP transactions lawyers Emma Flett, Ben Zeris and Julia Ostendorf; and tax lawyers Mavnick Nerwal, Tomás McGrath and Ellen Ronayne.

AZB & Partners advised Long Path Partners on all India law aspects of the proposed take-private acquisition of Idox Plc. The deal team comprised Senior Partner Nandita Govind, Senior Associate Prashant Khurana, Associates Radhika Malpani and Sushil Joon.

Pinsent Masons advised Idox plc (Idox). The Pinsent Masons team has been led by corporate Finance Partner Rosalie Chadwick and public M&A specialist Adam Cain, supported by a core corporate team of Ailie Isdale, Robert Lawless, Monica Kochar and Lara Wilkie. Other key members of the transaction team include Antitrust Partner Giles Warrington, Amanpreet Kaur and James Sullivan-Tailyour.