Travers, CMS and Willkie Farr pick up Radley handbag deal
Trio wins roles on handbag company's sale to private equity fund backed by billionaire Dutch family
June 07, 2016 at 06:30 AM
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Travers Smith, CMS Cameron McKenna and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have all won roles on the sale of British handbag maker Radley to private equity fund Bregal Freshstream.
Radley started trading at London's Camden Market in 1984 and now has 30 stores across the UK.
Bregal Freshstream is a UK- and Benelux-focused fund backed by the billionaire Dutch Brenninkmeijer family, who own the C&A retail chain.
Travers is advising longstanding client Exponent Private Equity Partners, alongside other selling shareholders, on the sale of the entire issued share capital of Radley London's holding company.
The Travers team is being led out of London by private equity partner Lucie Cawood, supported by tax partners Simon Skinner and Jess Kemp.
CMS is representing Radley's management, with City corporate partner and head of consumer products Louise Wallace taking the lead.
Bregal Freshstream has turned to Willkie Farr & Gallagher for advice, with London corporate partner Claire McDaid taking the key role.
Cavendish Corporate Finance provided advice to the selling shareholders.
Previous deals Travers has undertaken for Exponent include the sale of train booking website Trainline to private equity firm KKR in 2015, and the sale of the Ambassador Theatre Group to Providence Equity Partners in 2013.
Cawood advised Exponent on the aforementioned Trainline deal alongside corporate partner Ian Shawyer.
McDaid joined Willkie Farr in 2014 from Kirkland & Ellis to set up the US firm's London leveraged buyout practice.
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