Kirkland Advises InPost S.A. on Acquisition
Kirkland & Ellis is advising InPost S.A., the Polish parcel locker firm formerly backed by Advent International Corp. and recently listed on Euronext Amsterdam, on its proposed acquisition of 100% of the shares of Mondial Relay, the leading French eCommerce out-of-home parcel delivery platform, from Otto Group for approximately EUR 565 million.
InPost S.A. is the first company in Poland to create a network of parcel lockers – self-service parcel dispatch and collection points, open 24/7.
The proposed acquisition would allow InPost to take a major step in its ambition to become Europe’s leading out-of-home solution for eCommerce.
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The proposed transaction remains subject to the completion of the consultation of Mondial Relay’s employee representative body and the obtaining of certain regulatory clearances.
The Kirkland team was led by transactional partner Laurent Victor-Michel and associate Louis Gosset; tax partner Nadine Gelli and associate Sonia Bouaffassa; antitrust and competition partner Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and associates Shahrzad Sadjadi and Samantha Hobson-Jones; technology & IP transactions associates John Patten and Ben Zeris; with additional support from transactional partner Adrian Maguire, Ben Leyendecker and associate Sebastian Haefele.