ADDLESHAW GODDARD

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Our corporate lawyers have a strong track record of together a regional team that offers the highest undertaking significant and complex M&A acquisitions and international quality and standards together with disposals across the GCC. Our lawyers are fully conversant substantial regional experience; with regional issues and have considerable experience of ►► Investing in client relationships – Using regular regional and cross-border transactions. We offer clients update meetings, secondments and comprehensive excellent service delivery which meets and exceeds their post-transaction reviews to ensure that we tailor our expectations and we achieve this through our commitment services to client needs; to quality, regional and international expertise and a dedicated focus on key sectors. ►► Flexible ways of working – Giving clients the lawyers that they want and where they want them and with We support our clients with the full range of M&A pricing arrangements that offer flexibility, efficiency and transaction services, including assessing opportunities, which appropriately share risk; and preliminary documents (confidentiality agreements, term sheets and exclusivity agreements), due diligence, ►► A unique approach to deal planning and project disclosure, sale and purchase agreements, financing management – Developing a deep understanding (including Islamic financing), security arrangements, of the key financial and commercial drivers of a deal signing and closing and post-closing matters. which we use to focus the approach and documentation (rather than the documents driving the deal). Adding value International standards and In a competitive market, we recognise that technical ability is a given. We develop a deeper understanding of how local expertise our clients operate (from both a commercial and legal Our GCC corporate practice comprises lawyers who perspective) and identify ways that genuinely add value. combine impressive regional and international transaction Examples of this approach include: experience with the advantage of being located at the heart of the region’s deal making centre. Our team is thoroughly ►► Sector focus – Our firmwide focus on key sectors conversant with the issues faced by our clients. including retail and consumer, healthcare, education, real estate, industrials, transport, energy and financial With offices in Dubai, Doha and Muscat, a close relationship services helps us to identify and assess transaction with a highly regarded local law firm in the Kingdom of opportunities and gives us a deep insight into , and an established network of leading law transactions in those sectors; firms in all other key jurisdictions in which we operate throughout the GCC, we are able to execute regional ►► International quality combined with local insight transactions on behalf of our clients in an efficient and and “on the ground” execution capability – seamless manner through a single point of contact. Addleshaw Goddard has invested heavily to bring ►► CedarBridge Capital Partners on its acquisition of Representative deals the entire share capital of a company that owns and operates the leading beauty spa, Sisters Beauty Lounge; Our team has a strong track record of undertaking significant and complex acquisitions and disposals across ►► Qatar First Bank on its subscription for shares in the the GCC. Our lawyers are fully conversant with regional group that owns and operates the Cambridge Medical issues and have considerable experience of regional and Rehabilitation Centres in the UAE; cross-border transactions. ►► Indevco Group on the acquisition of a packaging We support our clients with the full range of M&A business in the UAE; transaction services, including assessing opportunities, ►► A Dubai-based sovereign wealth fund in relation to preliminary documents (confidentiality agreements, the disposal of an interest in its Singaporean-based term sheets and exclusivity agreements), due diligence, portfolio company and the restructuring of associated disclosure, sale and purchase agreements, financing shareholder debt; (including Islamic financing), security arrangements, signing and closing and post-closing matters. ►► EC Harris on its merger with Dutch consulting and management services company Arcadis; This includes advising: ►► Travelodge on its US 1billion disposal to Dubai ►► Actuant Corporation, an NYSE-listed company, on its International Capital; acquisition of the FourQuest Energy business in the , Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, ►► A prominent investment house in Dubai in relation to Kuwait, Algeria and Kazakhstan; investments in ;

►► The Bhatia family in connection with the restructure ►► Sellers and management of a Dubai-based food of the Automech companies involving entities across distribution business in relation to private equity Dubai, Abu Dhabi, the British Virgin Islands, Belize and investment; and the KSA; ►► Sellers on the part-disposal of a large construction ►► A UK specialist education fund on the acquisition of the business in Qatar. entire share capital of Abu Dhabi based school from an individual founder seller; ANDREW JOHNSTON ►► Hira Industries on the disposal of 50% of its interest in Partner and Head of its business to a Dutch-based buyer, Walraven Holding; Corporate GCC

►► The shareholders of a premium food importing business t: +971 4 350 6423 in relation to the disposal of their business to a private e: [email protected] equity-backed company;

►► TUV Rheinland on its acquisition of a multi-national risk DARREN HARRIS consultancy business; Partner

►► Carlyle Group in relation to the acquisition of a t: +971 4 350 6429 forty-nine per cent interest in Alamaar Foods, a pan- e: [email protected] GCC catering and food manufacturing business headquartered in KSA;

►► Dubai International Capital in relation to the disposal OLIVER STEVENS of its forty-five per cent interest in a UAE-based entity Head of Corporate Oman operating in the industrial sector; t: +968 2495 0715 ►► Freightliner, 3i and Electra on the acquisition of e: [email protected] Freightliner by Bahrain investment firm Arcapita;

►► A leading US private equity house on its disposal of forty-two percent interest in the group that owns the LOWRI LLWYD master franchise to a number of leading fast-food Legal Director brands; t: +971 4 350 6425 ►► Fircroft Engineering Services on its acquisition of a e: [email protected] KSA-based business;

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