Gaia Pattyn
Gaia Pattyn
Gaia Pattyn
Gaia Pattyn

Biography

Gaia Pattyn is an associate in the Firm's global M&A and corporate practice in London.

Gaia advises on M&A, joint ventures, venture capital, funding rounds and general corporate matters, having considerable experience in complex cross-border transactions and advising technology focused clients.

Prior to joining White & Case, Gaia was a Senior Associate at a Magic Circle law firm.

Experience

A selection of Gaia's experience includes advising:

Zimpler on its acquisition by TrueLayer, creating a pan-European Pay by Bank powerhouse with a combined network serving over 20 million users.

Waldorf Energy Partners and Waldorf Production, currently in administration, on the acquisition of substantially all their subsidiaries by Harbour Energy.

Inflection Point-led SPAC on its entry into a US$419 million business combination agreement with A1RWATER, a global leader in atmospheric water generation.

Arch Capital on the sale of its minority stake in Amphitrite Underwriting London, a marine hull specialist managing general agent.

A European asset manager on its minority investment in an AI-driven, cloud-based platform for financial institutions.

CapitalG and Google Ventures as lead investors in Monzo's Series I funding round.*

MTN Group on the sale of business units in Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry to Telecel.*

Ciena Corp on its investment in and commercial partnership with Lumiphase AG, a Swiss-based optical communication chip developer.*

Cape Investment Partners on the sale of CAPE Holland, a Netherlands-based developer of offshore vibro-piling installation equipment, to Venterra Group plc.*

A sovereign wealth fund as lead investor in a funding round for a German-American data processing company.*

Macromill, Inc on the sale of MetrixLab to Toluna, a market research platform provider, and the related cross-investment in Toluna.*

PepsiCo on various European corporate venture capital investments.*

Razor Group on the acquisition of Valoreo and its related Series C funding round.*

STMicroelectronics NV on the acquisition of BeSpoon SAS, a France-based semiconductor company, and the related strategic partnership for UWB positioning technology with TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG.*

RWE AG on the acquisition of Nordex SE's European onshore wind and solar development business, including a 2.7 GW project pipeline.*

Mars, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in Foodspring GmbH, a Germany-based provider of nutritional supplements, vitamins, snacks and drinks (now Mars Edge).*

*Experience prior to joining White & Case

England and Wales, Solicitor
Brussels
Master of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Master's Degree in Law
Catholic University of Leuven
Bachelor of Laws
Catholic University of Leuven
English
Dutch
French
German

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