Jamie Holdoway

Jamie is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions practices. He acts for a broad range of financial sponsors and has experience across transactions comprising the full range of downstream activity, including leading complex leveraged buyouts, consortia bids, sponsor joint ventures and minority investments and management incentivisation, across a variety of sectors, including technology, digital infrastructure, retail and business services.

• Abry Partners on the acquisition of AA Ireland*
• Keensight Capital on the acquisition of Bedfont Scientific*
• Wipro Limited on its strategic partnership with Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long term savings and retirement business*
• Link Mobility AS on the acquisition of SMSPortal*
• Wipro Limited on the acquisition of certain assets forming part of the Wealthtime Business*
• Abry Partners on the acquisition of Burgess Hodgson LLP*
• TeamViewer on the acquisition of 1E from Carlyle*
• Oakley Capital on the sale of Ocean Technology Group to Lloyds Register*
• Abry Partners on the sale of Options IT to Vitruvian Partners*
• Francisco Partners on its investment in Orisha alongside TA Associates*
• Oakley Capital on its investment in ProductLife Group, in a joint venture alongside 21 Invest (via its continuation vehicle)*
• Abry Partners and Castik Capital on the sale of Reward Gateway to Edenred*
• Francisco Partners on the acquisition of Macrobond*
• Abry Partners on the acquisition of Chambers & Partners*
• Oakley Capital on the carve-out of Flemming Dental, Excent and Antinorway from EGD (owned by Nordic Capital)*
• Marlin Equity Partners on its investment in OpenAsset*
• nLighten, a European edge datacentre platform delivering solutions for both traditional and low-latency use cases, on its investment from I Squared Capital*
• The senior management team of RL Datix on their reinvestment alongside TA Associates, Five Arrows and Nordic Capital*
• Abry Partners on its acquisition of Aker Systems*
• Oakley Capital on its acquisition of PRIMAVERA and merger with the Ekon business to form Grupo Primavera*
• Abry Partners on the acquisitions of Reward Gateway and Xexec, in a joint venture with Castik Capital*
• Francisco Partners on the combination of Consignor and Unifaun in a joint venture with Marlin Equity Partners*
• Francisco Partners on the acquisition of the International Business of CDK Global*
• Abry Partners II, LLC and Link Mobility Group on Link Mobility’s listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange*
• Oakley Capital on the sale of atHome group to Mayfair Equity Partners*
• Oakley Capital on the sale of Casa.it to EQT*
• A consortium comprising Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the take private of Inmarsat plc*
• Advent International Corporation on the acquisition of Transaction Service Group and subsequent bolt-ons*
• Providence Equity LLP on the acquisitions of CloserStill Media, Times Education Supplement and NACE Schools Group*
• PAI Partners on the disposal of certain assets to a continuation fund managed by PAI*
• OMERS Private Equity on the acquisition of Alexander Mann Solutions*
• General Atlantic on the acquisition of Kiwi.com*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin

Recognised as a rising star in private equity, as part of Law.com’s top 25 private equity lawyers under the age of 40 for 2022.

Recognised in The Lawyer Festival of Talent – 2021.

Publications:

• Quoted, “Are SPACS Here to Stay or Will Regulation Destroy Them?” Law Monthly, May 28, 2021