People
James Funder
Biography
James advises financial sponsors focussed on private equity and real estate transactions on a full range of corporate matters, including leveraged buyouts, joint venture arrangements and minority investments (including preferred and structured equity transactions), bolt-ons, sales processes and management equity plans.
Practice areas
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Corporate and M&A
- Private equity
- Real estate
Sectors
- Private equity
- Private capital
Selected experience
- Apollo on its investment into, and subsequent exit from, CPI Property Group.
- Apollo on its joint venture with LeadCrest for the acquisition of a 49% stake in Groupement Mousquetaire’s Portuguese real estate arm, Alcapredial.
- Apollo on its co-investment arrangements with Avant Capital Partners in relation to the acquisition of a portfolio of 44 rental housing properties from Kojamo.
- Apollo on its co-investment arrangements with Griffin Capital Partners in relation to the financing of Spravia, one of Poland’s leading residential developers.
- Apollo on its financing to KME to support KME’s buyback of Cunova from Paragon.
- Ardian on its acquisition of Audiotonix from Astorg.
- Ares and Farallon on their joint venture arrangements in connection with their GBP200m debt-for-equity swap in respect of Independent Builders Merchants Group.
- Avenue Capital Group and Robus Capital Management on the sale of Schletter Group to Enstall.
- Blackstone on its acquisition of a majority stake in Luminor Bank and related joint venture with Nordea and DNB.
- Bridgepoint on its acquisition of Qualitest from Marlin Partners.
Education
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Queensland, 2011
- Bachelor of Economics, University of Queensland, 2011
Admissions
- Solicitor, Queensland, Australia, 2013