Kabya Chaharia

Experience

Experience includes advising:

• Advising Bain Capital on multi-billion dollar investments in strategic targets.
• Advising GIC on minority investments in various targets across Europe.
• Acting for HarbourVest Partners and Lexington Partners in an investment in Insight Partners’ continuation fund, closing with total commitments of $ 1.3 billion.
• Acting for TPG Capital in connection with its:
• $2 billion sale of Immucor to Werfen.
• $500 million acquisition of majority stake in Elite from Thomson Reuters Corp.
• Acting for Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services, part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, on its acquisition of a fund management services business.
• Acting for Silver Lake in connection with its $1.46 billion sale of ServiceMax to PTC.
• Acting for Kohlberg & Company and Alacrity Solutions Group in strategic investment from BlackRock Alternatives Long Term Private Capital.
• Acting for Two Sigma Impact in its investment in Milestone Technologies, a global IT services provider, alongside The Halifax Group.

Notable matters prior to joining the firm include advising: 

• E.ON on its €43 billion asset swap deal with RWE.
• Philip Morris on its $16 billion public takeover of Swedish Match. 
• CVC Capital Partners on its €4.5 billion acquisition of Unilever's global tea business.
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on its £2.8 billion public to private takeover bid for UDG Healthcare.
• A Big Tech company on various investigations by antitrust regulatory authorities.
• Louis Dreyfus Company on its multi-billion dollar sale of minority stake to a sovereign wealth fund.
• JD Sports on its acquisition of Footasylum, investigated by the CMA.
• EDF energy in setting up a joint venture for its renewable energy offshore wind farms in the UK.
• Deutsche Börse in relation to a potential acquisition of a foreign exchange electronic trading platform.
• Rio Tinto on its sale of the largest uranium mine in Namibia.