Best Private Equity Buyout 2008
December 9, 2008, FinanceAsia

White & Case won FinanceAsia's "Best Private Equity Buyout" 2008 award for advising the five mandated lead arrangers—Deutsche Bank, GE Commercial Finance, ING Bank, Morgan Stanley and DBS—on Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' (KKR) acquisition of Unisteel, a publicly listed company based in Singapore that is a leading precision engineering solutions provider.

The financing consisted of a $280 million facility to a special-purpose company owned by KKR to take Unisteel private. The transaction was KKR's second public-to-private LBO in the Singapore technology sector in the past two years, following the 2007 LBO of MMI Holdings Limited, a transaction on which White & Case also advised the joint mandated lead arrangers.

The White & Case team was led by John Hartley in Hong Kong.

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