Philip Vavalidis
Biography
Philip is a partner in our Global M&A practice and is a member of our EMEA Private Equity team.
With over a decade of experience across EMEA, he has spent most of his time with the Firm between our Riyadh, London and Dubai offices, and advises sovereign wealth funds, hybrid capital providers, private equity, and corporates on a range of transactions including M&A, strategic joint ventures, hybrid capital transactions, co-investments, restructuring advice and other portfolio assistance.
He undertook secondments to the Public Investment Fund's International Investments Legal Advisory section in Riyadh, and to Goldman Sachs International's Merchant Banking Division in London.
Experience
Representative experience includes advising:
Dream Games, the developer and publisher of globally renowned mobile games Royal Match and Royal Kingdom, on a strategic investment from CVC.
Saudi Agricultural and Livestock investment Company (SALIC) on its acquisition of a 35% stake in Olam Agri Holdings Pte Ltd for US$1.24 billion.
Kentech Corporate Holdings Limited, an investee company of leading energy investment firm Blue Water Energy, on its agreement to acquire the oil & gas business of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.'s Resources Division. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is a Canadian publicly listed entity (SCN:CN)
Kalyon İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., on the establishment of a joint venture via the sale of its shares representing 50% of the share capital of Kalyon Enerji Yatırımları A.Ş. to International Holding Company PJSC (via International Energy Holding LLC), the UAE's most valuable listed company.
Actis on the EUR 500 million acquisition of a newly carved-out telecom towers business from the state-owned Telekom Srbija (a leading telecommunications operator in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region), encompassing 1,800 towers across Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
Armira Investment Holding, a Germany-based investment holding, on the financing and M&A aspects of its acquisition of Factor Eleven, a leading German digital marketing software company
Blackstone Credit on a variety of its investment, including in connection with: Advent International's take private acquisition of Laird; the sale of Alcontrol Group Limited and the structuring and upstreaming of proceeds; and its acquisition of a minority interest in iAero Group Holdco LLC and the subsequent acquisitions by iAero. Group of Miami Tech Aircraft Maintenance, Inc., the AeroThrust group of companies, and New Swift Air Holdings, L.L.C.
Goldman Sachs International on a variety of its investments, including alongside: Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in Prima Assicurazioni; Baring Vostok Capital Partners in Sravni.ru, a Russian-based comparator website of banking and insurance retail products; Cromwell Property Group in a portfolio of office properties in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area; and in the Ceona Group
Hoist Finance AB (Hoist) on a strategic partnership with alternative investment manager Magnetar Capital (Magnetar) for joint non-performing loan (NPL) portfolio investments on a pan-European level
Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, on its acquisition, alongside Kohlberg & Company, of PCI Pharma Services ("PCI") from Partners Group and Frazier Healthcare Partners
GFH Financial in its acquisition of Roebuck AM LLP, a UK-based real estate asset management company with £1.44 billion AUM since inception.
ETF Securities Limited on the equity, US and debt financing aspects of the US$611 million sale of its European exchange-traded commodity, currency and short-and-leveraged business to WisdomTree Investments, Inc.
Representation of Alameda Healthcare Group on its sale to Cleopatra Hospital Group, Egypt's largest private hospital operator, in exchange for convertible loan notes issued to Alameda's controlling shareholder
