AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (XTRA:AR4) exchanged contracts to acquire Footasylum Limited from JD Sports Fashion plc (LSE:JD.) for £37.5 million on July 29, 2022. The transaction to be completed in August 2022.

Lincoln International acted as financial advisor; James Adams, Holger Engelkamp, Elliott Ryan, Kata Szeidovitz., Priyanka Usmani, Luis A. Gomez, Gavin Hayes, Jeremy Edwards, Harriet Jupp, Lucy Hart, Octavia Campbell, Ben Farnell, Jack McCaw, Alistair Craig and Vadim Romanoff from London office as well as Berthold A. Hummel and Michelle Karrer from Munich office of Baker & Mackenzie and DLA Piper Germany acted as legal advisors to AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. Ernst & Young Gmbh WirtschaftsprÜFungsgesellschaft acted as accountant to AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA.

Addleshaw Goddard acted as legal advisor to JD Sports Fashion plc. The transaction was managed in-house by Frank Forster (General Counsel), Jon Young (Senior Legal Counsel) of AURELIUS.