David D'Souza

David advises international and domestic private equity houses, financial sponsors, their portfolio companies and management teams on a wide range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, growth equity transactions, shareholder and management incentive arrangements, joint ventures, restructurings and refinancings.

David’s experience includes advising:

• DWS on its exit from ground support equipment business TCR to 3i
• Inflexion on its sale of Succession Wealth 
• Blackstone on its investment in Currencies Direct
• Aquiline Capital Partners on its investment in Wealth at Work 
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management on its investment in Form3 and exit from Beqom
• Ixcellerate on its fundraising by, among others, Mubadala
• Thoma Bravo on its acquisition of insurance software firm Majesco
• United Group on its acquisition of Tele2 Croatia
• Thoma Bravo on the £3.1 billion recommended cash offer for Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity solutions
• BC Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in United Group, a leading media and communication services provider across Southeast Europe, from KKR
• Blackstone on its investment in social gaming developer Murka
• Permira on its acquisition of Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions business
• GIC on the disposal of its stake in an Irish telecoms operator Eir
• Macquarie (MIRA Funds), Allianz Capital Partners and the Finnish State Pension Fund on their €3.6 billion acquisition of Finnish power distributor Elenia Networks
• Permira on its acquisition of a stake in Swedish headquartered fintech company Klarna
• Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa Partners on their acquisition of Allegro Group, Poland’s leading online market place, from Naspers for US$3.253 billion
• USS on its acquisition of Moto