Kit Bottomley

Kit Bottomley is an associate in Goodwin’s Private Equity group with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and other private capital investments. His experience includes advising private equity sponsors, management teams and portfolio companies on transactions in a range of sectors, in particular technology and healthcare life sciences.

Kit joined Goodwin in 2021.

Kit’s representative experience includes: 

Mayfair Equity Partners

• on the acquisition of Colibri, a technology consultancy company with operations in the UK and Romania through its portfolio company, Nasstar
• on the acquisition of the national business and assets of KCOM through its portfolio company, Nasstar

Alvarium on its on $1.4 billion deSPAC business combination with Cartesian Growth Corporation, Tiedemann Advisors and TIG Advisors to form ALTi Global, Inc, a global wealth and asset manager

Exclusive Networks (owned by funds managed by Permira) on its investment in Nuaware, a UK-based specialized software distributor in DevOps, Cloud and Cloud Native technologies, and also in Ignition Technology, a leading distributor of SaaS security products in the UK, Nordic and Benelux regions

Partners Group on the acquisition of FirstPort, the UK’s leading residential property management service provider through its portfolio company, Emeria Group

B Capital Group on its $250 million Series D Preferred Stock financing of Flutterwave, a San Francisco headquartered and Lagos based fintech company providing payments infrastructure via a single API

Frazier Healthcare Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners, acting through their portfolio company CSafe Globalon the acquisition of Softbox Systems,  an international provider of temperature control packaging to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Softbox supplies Pfizer with the ultra-low temperature-controlled parcel shipper required in the distribution of its COVID-19 vaccines

Wavecrest Growth Partners, along with co-investor Abry Partners, on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Pole Star Space Applications, a SaaS provider of regulatory and compliance maritime technology servicing a range of financial institutions, governments and shipping companies

HqO, the end-to-end tenant experience platform for commercial real estate properties, on its acquisition of Office App, a leading European tenant and employee engagement platform

Incopro, an online intellectual property and brand protection company, on its sale to Corsearch (a portfolio company of Astorg)

Behrman Capital on its investment in Orphan Reach Limited, a global, full-service Clinical Research Organisation specialised in clinical research related to rare diseases

StorageOS, a cloud storage technology company, on its sale to Akamai Technologies