Emma Ghaffari focuses on advising private equity funds, sovereign wealth-backed investors and other financial sponsors and international corporations on a range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, consortium arrangements, co-investments and joint ventures, reorganizations and exits.
I Squared Capital on the acquisition of Arriva, a major European public transport operator headquartered in the U.K., from Deutsche Bahn AG a Jersey-based group of funds of funds on the sale of certain fund interests to a U.S. investor
Mubadala on its divestment of shares in Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) and the associated renewable energy joint venture with ADNOC and TAQA
Mubadala on its health care joint venture with G42
Infinigate Group, a Bridgepoint portfolio company, on its acquisition of StarLink, a market-leading value-added distributor in cybersecurity, secure cloud and secure networking in the Middle East and Africaan international food and beverage group on several transactions, including the buyout of minority investors from its operations across the MENA region
Mubadala on the sale of its Abu Dhabi Global Market property portfolio to Aldar
CVC Capital Partners on the acquisition of Ahlsell, the Nordic region’s leading technical products wholesaler
Cinven on its acquisition of German life insurance group Heidelberger Leben
Cinven on its investment in Nordic software group Visma
Cinven on their disposal of allergy diagnostics business Phadia to Thermo Fischer Scientific Inc.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Emma worked in London, Dubai, and Stockholm offices of other international law firms, in addition to serving as European M&A counsel at a leading private equity firm.
Solicitor, England & Wales, admitted November 2014 (practiced in England as a Registered European Lawyer from 2011)
Admitted to the Swedish Bar as Advokat in 2011 (left in 2015 when leaving private practice) and served on the board of the International Division of the Swedish Bar, 2014-2015
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