Annika Holmgren-Reyes

Profile

Annika Holmgren-Reyes is a partner in the London office of Corvane Ryle LLP and a member of the firm's Private Equity practice. She advises sponsors, their portfolio companies and co-investors on leveraged buyouts, minority investments, add-on acquisitions, exits and continuation fund transactions across Europe and the United States.

Annika acts for sponsors with a focus on consumer and retail, technology and healthcare businesses. She is known for bringing structure to conflicted situations and for working across English law and US law deals, drawing on colleagues in the firm's M&A and Banking & Private Credit groups.

Her insight Continuation Funds: Managing Conflicts and Governance sets out how sponsors and limited partners are approaching these transactions. She was part of the team behind the firm's work for Northwall Capital described in a recent announcement.

Experience

Annika Holmgren-Reyes's representative matters include the following, many of which are confidential and described in general terms.

• Advised Northwall Capital on the final close of its seventh flagship fund, including its fund formation and investor negotiations.
• Represented Northwall Capital in the US$1.2 billion acquisition of Larkspur Apparel.
• Advised Northwall Capital on the establishment of a single-asset continuation vehicle and the related fairness and conflicts process.
• Represented a European sponsor in the take-private of a UK-listed consumer brands business under the Takeover Code.
• Advised Fennwick Home's sponsor on the acquisition of a European online furniture retailer.
• Counseled a sponsor on the sale of a healthcare services business to a strategic acquirer.
• Advised a mid-market sponsor on a secondary sale of a portfolio of hotel assets, including with Castellan Hotels as operator.
• Represented a pension fund co-investor in a minority investment in a software company alongside a lead sponsor.
• Advised a sponsor on the structuring of management incentive plans across the UK, Germany and the United States.
• Represented Tidewater Logistics' sponsor in a platform acquisition and four follow-on add-ons.
• Advised a sponsor on a continuation fund transaction supported by a syndicate of secondary investors.
• Counseled a portfolio company on a US$450 million unitranche refinancing and dividend recapitalization.
• Represented Meridian Arc Therapeutics' investor group in a structured growth equity investment.

Qualifications

Bar admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
• State Bar of New York

Education

• LPC and Training Contract, The University of Law, London
• LLB, University of Bristol