Energy and natural resources

TotalEnergies on:

• its acquisition of the interests of OMV (50%) and Sapura Upstream Assets (50%) in SapuraOMV Upstream (SapuraOMV), an independent gas producer in Malaysia, for US$903 million (including the transfer of a US$350 million loan granted by OMV to SapuraOMV) and US$530 million, respectively
• its strategic partnership agreement for petroleum products trading formed with Bapco Energies, the integrated energy company leading the energy transition in the Kingdom of Bahrain

State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) on:

• the sale of a 15% of its participating interest in the Absheron gas-condensate field to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
• its acquisition from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) of a 3% participating interest in the Umm Lulu, Satah Al Razboot (SARB), Bin Nasher and Al Bateel offshore concession located in the United Arab Emirates

Alcoa Corporation, a provider of bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products. on the sale to Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) of Alcoa's entire 25.1% stake in a joint venture (a fully integrated mining complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in which Ma'aden owns the remaining 74.9%) for approximately US$1.1 billion

MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas PLC on its US$1.57 billion acquisition of Chevron's 9.57% stake in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan and an effective 8.90% interest in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline running across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey

Bunge, the NYSE-listed, global, soft commodities trading house, on its c.US$850 million joint venture with Repsol, the Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical group, for the production and supply of biofuels

Anglo American on the US$1.7 billion sale of its niobium and phosphates divisions to China Molybdenum*

Infrastructure

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners on its £378.9 million competitive takeover offer for Augean plc

Global Yatırım Holding A.Ş on its unconditional US$310 million cash takeover of Global Ports Holding Plc.

GCX Holdings Limited (trading as Global Cloud Xchange), a leading global data communications service provider and owner of one of the world's largest private subsea fibre optic networks, on the US$512 million sale of its entire share capital to Reef Bidco (a subsidiary of 3i Infrastructure plc, a UK listed infrastructure investment company)

A sovereign wealth fund on its acquisition of a 20% stake in a major UK airport*

Life Sciences

Novartis on its asset swap with GSK, where Novartis sold its vaccines business to GSK for US$7.1 billion, Novartis acquired GSK's oncology business for US$16 billion and the parties entered into a joint venture in respect of the parties' consumer health businesses*

Takeda Pharmaceuticals on the US$578 million sale of its global respiratory product portfolio to AstraZeneca*

Consumer & Retail

Primo Water Corporation on the sale of its European business to the Culligan group (owned by BDT)

Roark Capital Group on the sale of International Car Wash Group to Driven Brands

J Sainsbury plc on its proposed £15 billion merger with Asda*

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC on its US$17.9 billion acquisition of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company*

UBM plc on its takeover by Informa plc for £3.8 billion*

* Experience prior to joining White & Case