Gabriele Antonazzo’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on advising private equity funds and other financial investors on all types of investments, including leveraged buy-outs, growth investments, minority investments, joint ventures and consortium deals.

He has extensive experience structuring and executing transactions in Europe and Asia, often involving complex multijurisdictional issues.

Gabriele joined the firm in 2000. He is based in London, where he has spent most of his career. He was also based in the Hong Kong office from 2015 to 2019, and, at the beginning of his career, spent time in our New York and Rome offices.

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Notable Experience

  • Cerberus Capital Management in a number of transactions, including the acquisition of HSBC Continental Europe’s retail banking business in France.

  • Warburg Pincus in a number of transactions, including: the acquisition by its portfolio company Infinite Electronics, Inc. of Bulgin Ltd, a UK-based developer and manufacturer of connectors and related components for harsh-environment applications, from Equistone Partners Europe; the acquisition, alongside General Atlantic, of a 50% stake in Santander Asset Management from Banco Santander and the subsequent proposed combination of Santander Asset Management with Pioneer Investment Management.

  • Oaktree Capital Management in a number of transactions, including its investment in Aggreko.

  • Silk Road Fund in a number of transactions, including: the establishment of an investment platform with COSCO Shipping Ports for investments in port assets and related upstream and downstream businesses, as well as the platform’s acquisition of minority stakes in CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal and Euromax Terminal (Rotterdam);  the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in ACWA Power Renewable Energy Holding Limited, the holding company of a portfolio of wind and solar power plants in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates; and the disposal of a minority stake in Pirelli & C. 

  • Euronext in its €4.325 billion acquisition of the Borsa Italiana Group from the London Stock Exchange Group plc (Winner, “Corporate Team of the Year,” 2021 Legal Business Awards and “M&A Deal of the Year,” 2022 IFLR Europe Awards).

  • An Asian sovereign wealth fund in its minority investment in one of the world’s leading global mining and recycling conglomerates with operations across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Asia.

  • The Indonesia Investment Authority in a strategic partnership with ESR and MC Urban Development Indonesia and in the partnership’s investment in three logistics parks in Indonesia.

  • Hillhouse as one of the lead investors in the approximately $2.5 billion financing round for JD Logistics, the logistics business of JD.com, Inc.

  • MBK Partners in its investment in Green Leisure Ltd.

  • McDonald’s Corporation in the sale to CITIC Limited, CITIC Capital Holdings, and The Carlyle Group of a majority stake in a company that will act as the master franchisee responsible for McDonald’s businesses in mainland China and Hong Kong (Winner, “Private Equity Deal of the Year,” 2018 IFLR Asia Awards and 2017 Mergermarket China Law Awards, “M&A Deal of the Year,” 2018 ALB China Law Awards and 2017 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards).

  • SGI Frontier Capital (now part of Cerberus Capital Management) in a number of transactions, as well as in the sale of its investment platform to Cerberus Capital Management.

  • TPG in a wide range of transactions in Southeast Asia and India, including its investments in Janalakshmi Financial Services, Rhea Healthcare Private Limited, Cancer Treatment Services International, and Sutures India Private Limited.

  • First Reserve Corporation in numerous transactions, including its acquisition of a 45% interest in Ansaldo Energia from Finmeccanica and its investments in Gamesa Solar and Ener3.

  • Great Wall WL Ross in its investment in Meta Systems S.p.A. 

  • Tele2 in the creation of a joint venture with Kazakhtelecom that combined two mobile operators and in the subsequent sale of its stake to Kazakhtelecom.

  • Clermont Group in its investment in MHealthTech, a leading healthcare sector app developer in Indonesia.

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the sale of its wealth management business in Asia, Europe, and Latin America to Julius Baer.

  • Dexia in the sale of its 50% stake in RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited to Royal Bank of Canada.

  • The Vita Group and its controlling shareholder TPG Capital in the Vita Group’s restructuring.

  • Falck Renewables in a number of transactions, including the sale of a 49% interest in six operating wind farms in the United Kingdom to Copenhagen Infrastructure I K/S.

  • Ahlstrom in the sale of its global wipes business to Suominen and in its acquisition of the consumer wipes business of Fiberweb plc.

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