Ani Kusheva

Ms. Kusheva's recent experience includes advising, among others:

• International Paper Company in its:
  • US$812 million sale of its pulp and paper mill in Kwidzyn, Poland, to Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG;
  • acquisition of two packaging businesses in northwestern France and Portugal from DS Smith Plc;
  • unsolicited US$10.7 billion proposal to acquire Dublin-based Smurfit Kappa Group plc; and
  • creation of a 50/50 joint venture with Ilim Pulp via International Paper’s US$650 million acquisition of a 50% interest in Ilim Holding;
• Silver Lake Partners, a global leader in technology investing, in connection with its:
  • €500 million (US$565 million) acquisition of Silae, a French cloud-based payroll software provider; and
  • buyout of Meilleurtaux, a leading financial services provider, from Goldman Sachs PIA;
• The Middleby Corporation in its:
  • acquisition of Novy Group, a leading manufacturer of premium residential ventilation hoods and cooktops based in Belgium;
  • sale of Fired Earth Limited, a designer and manufacturer of home design products headquartered in London;
  • acquisition of a 33% stake in Levens Beheer BV, a manufacturer of industrial kitchen equipment incorporated in the Netherlands;
  • acquisition of Sveba Dahlen, a Swedish developer and manufacturer of baking equipment for the commercial foodservice and industrial baking industries; and
  • acquisition of Scanico A/S, a leading manufacturer of industrial cooling and freezing equipment for the food processing industry based in Denmark;
• R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in the sale of its European Global Document Solutions business to Paragon Group Limited;
• Armstrong World Industries, Inc. in the US$330 million sale of its EMEA and Pacific Rim businesses to Knauf International Gmbh;
• Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited in its strategic investment in the Polish real estate platform Griffin Premium Re. N.V., effected by way of a public tender offer;
• Ctrip.com International, Ltd. in its US$1.7 billion acquisition of Skyscanner Holdings Limited;
• Ball Corporation in its US$8.4 billion acquisition of Rexam PLC and simultaneous divestiture of US$3.4 billion assets to Ardagh Group;
• HellermannTyton Group PLC (a portfolio company of United Kingdom-based Doughty Hanson & Co.) in its US$1.7 billion acquisition by Delphi Automotive PLC;
• Lightning Investors Limited, an entity jointly owned by FMR LLC and FIL Limited, in its US$2.7 billion acquisition of the remaining stake in Colt Group S.A.it did not already own;
• CJSC Sibur Holding in the US$1 billion sale of its mineral fertilizer business to CJSC Holding Company Siberian Business Union;
• Colony Capital, Inc. in its acquisition of The Abraaj Group’s Latin America private equity platform;
• Unitech Corporate Parks plc in the US$349 million sale of the entire issued share capital of its subsidiary Candor Investments Ltd. to an affiliate of Brookfield Property Partners L.P.;
• Capgemini S.A., a consulting company based in France, in its US$1.3 billion merger with Kanbay Inc.;
• Gazit-Globe, Ltd. in its US$261 million acquisition of an additional 14% stake in Atrium European Real Estate Limited;
• FMR LLC and FIL Limited in their US$164 million sale of KVH Co., Ltd. to Colt Group S.A.;
• Lucid Markets Trading Limited in the US$176 million sale of a 51% stake to FXCM Inc.;
• The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. in its sale of International Derivatives Clearing Group, LLC to LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd.;
• Alpha Bank A.E., Greece’s second-largest bank, in connection with its proposed merger with EFG Eurobank A.E.;
• Citigroup Inc. in:
  • its US$512 million sale of Citigroup Global Services Limited to Tata Consultancy Services Limited;
  • its US$127 million sale of Citi Technology Services Limited to Wipro Limited; and
  • CitiCapital’s sale of its vendor finance leasing business in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany and Italy to CIT Group Inc.;
• CME Group Inc. in its acquisition of Credit Market Analysis Limited;
• Neochimiki LV Lavrentiadis S.A. in its €749 million sale of a 74% stake to The Carlyle Group;
• Valeant Pharmaceuticals International in its US$392 million sale of certain subsidiaries in Western and Eastern Europe to Meda AB;
• SCOR, the French reinsurance company, in relation to:
  • its US$775 million acquisition of Revios Rückversicherung AG;
  • the merger of its German and Italian subsidiaries to become a Societas Europaea (a European public company); and
  • its US$221 million acquisition of a 47% stake in Irish Reinsurance Partners Ltd. from Highfields Capital Management LP;
• Fournier Pharma in its US$1.7 billion acquisition by Solvay Pharmaceuticals;
• Citigroup Global Markets Limited as financial advisor to SAGEM SA in its US$7 billion merger with Snecma, which resulted in the privatization of Snecma; and
• AOL Europe S.à.r.l., a subsidiary of AOL Inc., in its US$97 million acquisition of Goviral A/S.