Heidi Blomqvist

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Heidi Blomqvist is an associate in our global M&A and Corporate practice based in London and a member of the EMEA Private Equity team. Heidi advises both corporate and private equity clients. Heidi has experience on a broad range of transactions including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and general corporate advisory. Heidi has a particular focus on the infrastructure sector.

Bars and Courts
Finnish Bar Association
England and Wales
Education
LLM
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Law
Languages
Finnish
Swedish
English

Experience

Representation of Actis on the carve-out and acquisition of Telekom Srbija's towers business, comprising approximately 1,800 macro towers across Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro.

Represetation of Nordic Capital on its sale of Consilium Safety Group to Antin Infrastructure Partners.

Representation of GRIDSERVE on a £200 million initial investment from Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Plc.

Representation of Antin Infrastructure Partners on its sale of Roadchef, the UK's third largest motorway service area operator, to a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management.

Representation of institutional investors advised by the Global Infrastructure group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management on its acquisition of GETEC, one of Europe's leading sustainable energy service companies for real estate and industrial customers, from EQT Infrastructure.

Representation of PPF Group, on its sale of 30% shares of CETIN Group N.V., a leading wholesale provider of active and passive telecommunications infrastructure services in the Central and Eastern Europe region, to GIC, a sovereign wealth fund established by the Government of Singapore to manage Singapore's foreign reserves.

Representation of CityFibre, the UK's largest independent full fibre platform, and its existing shareholders on its capital raise, which included new equity investments from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company and Interogo Holdings.

Representation of a consortium of long-term European institutional investors consisting of APG, PGGM, Alecta, Keva and AXA Infrastructure Equity on the acquisition of 50 percent. of the shares in Stockholm Exergi from Fortum. Stockholm Exergi is the largest district heating and cooling provider in the Nordics and is co-owned by the City of Stockholm.

Representation of institutional investors advised by the Global Infrastructure group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management on its acquisition of Adven, a leading supplier of clean energy solutions across the Nordics and Baltics, from AMP Capital and Infracapital.

Representation of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, a multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company, on its up to approximately US$670 million sale of a portfolio of select non-core over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceutical products sold in Europe, and two manufacturing sites located in Denmark and Poland, to Orifarm Group, a Danish pharmaceutical company.

Representation of GSO Capital Partners and its affiliates on a three-tier financing package to support Advent International's approximately £4 billion offer to acquire leading global technology and services innovator Cobham plc.

Representation of Columbia Threadneedle Investments and Brittany Ferries on the acquisition of Condor Ferries, the only operator of freight and passenger ferry services to and from the Channel Islands and the UK/France, from Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA).

Representing Supercell Oy and the management/founding team on Tencent Inc.'s acquisition of 84.3 percent of Supercell equity securities for a consideration of approximately US$8.6 billion.