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Shoosmiths LLP
APEX PLAZA
FORBURY ROAD
READING
RG1 1SH
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Kiran Dhesi

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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Kiran leads Shoosmiths’ private equity offering in the London office, advising PE sponsors, investee companies and management teams. Kiran also acts as lead counsel on a variety of M&A cross-border transactions across a breath of sectors.

Recent experience includes advising:

• Five Arrows Growth Capital on its investment into Biophorum
• the sellers of White Clarke Group (including its sponsors Five Arrows Principal Investments) to IDS, backed by Thoma Bravo
• RLDatix (and its sponsors Five Arrows Principal Investments and TA Associates) on its acquisition of Allocate Software from Hg Capital and Vista Partners
• the management team of the Nav 365 People, including its sponsor FPE Capital LLP on their investment into a platform supported by Providence Equity
• the sellers of Ixaris (including its sponsors, the Foresight Group) on its sale to Nium
• Livingbridge on its investment into Quorum Cyber
• the management team of Talking Talent on the investment by Bridges Fund Management

Kiran was shortlisted for Young Dealmaker of the Year  at the Thames Valley Deal Awards 2019.

Career

Kiran joined the team in January 2014.  Kiran graduated from The University of Birmingham with a 2:1 in Medieval and Modern History and later went on to complete a Graduate Diploma in Law, followed by her Legal Practice Course

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)

With a ‘very experienced team with good depth‘, clients praise Shoosmiths LLP for its broad capabilities in mid-market transactions, where the team acts for a host of PE firms and portfolio companies. The group’s regular workload includes a number of multimillion-pound acquisitions and disposals, as well as investment deals and reorganisations. The team is jointly headed up by Amit Nayyar, a ‘commercial and pragmatic’ figure who divides his time between London and Milton Keynes, and national PE head Sean Wright, who works between the firm’s offices in London and Solent. Other key figures include Sanjeev Sharma, who also heads up the firm’s Corporate South team, and Kiran Dhesi, who leads the London-based private equity offering, working closely with a number of the firm’s leading sponsor clients.

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