Liam Bonamy

Liam Bonamy has advised private equity funds, corporates, and management teams in complex private equity, M&A, and joint venture transactions for more than 15 years. He has advised on matters across a range of sectors, including consumer, industrials, hospitality, retail, food and beverage, financial services, technology, health care, and real estate.

Liam's private equity work includes acting for investors and management and advising on bolt-on acquisitions and exit processes. Representative transactions include advising Inflexion on its acquisition of the Aspen Pumps Group and subsequent sale to an Inflexion managed continuation fund (the largest European multi-asset continuation fund, raising £2.3bn), Aurelius on its acquisition of The Body Shop, and The Blackstone Group on its €175 million minority equity investment in Superbet, the international omni-channel sports betting and gaming operator.

Clients comment that he "is highly commercial and understands what matters to a private equity sponsor," "he is very good at simplifying complex issues down to focus on the key commercial implications," and that his team "really are like an outsourced extension of our investment team" (Legal 500). Clients have also commented that "the team at Jones Day are pragmatic, easy to deal with and highly experienced" and that "Liam is commercially astute and a problem solver" (Chambers).

The clients Liam has recently advised include Aurelius Equity Opportunities, Arsenal Capital, Blackstone, CBRE, CVC, Eagletree Capital, ESR Group, Goldman Sachs, Inflexion, Koch Industries, Pepper Group, The Riverside Company, Stellex Capital, and True Capital.