Baz Banai, Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Baz Banai

Associate

Areas of Focus

Baz Banai, Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Baz Banai

Associate

bbanai@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Maintains a diverse corporate practice.
  • Advises sovereign wealth funds, financial sponsors and strategics on M&A, private equity transactions and joint ventures.
  • Experience spanning the Middle East, United Kingdom and Australia.

Baz is an associate in the corporate team in Abu Dhabi. His practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, private equity transactions and joint ventures across a wide range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure, technology and industrials.

His experience covers the full spectrum of private capital transactions such as buyouts, take-privates, joint ventures, growth and minority investments, co-investments and carve-outs.

Prior to joining Akin, Baz practiced at another leading international law firm in Melbourne and a magic circle law firm in London, advising global private equity funds and financial sponsors.

Representative Work
  • Advised an Abu Dhabi stated-owned entity on the development of a new landmark globally branded theme park on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.
  • Advised a leading Abu Dhabi-based investment holding company on the establishment of an AI-focused joint venture with VentureOne and AI71.
  • Advised an Abu Dhabi stated-owned entity on a $1.2 billion strategic joint venture with a global resources investor to pursue critical metals and minerals investments across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Advised Abu Dhabi’s national oil company on its first strategic equity investment and long-term LNG offtake arrangements with NextDecade in the Rio Grande LNG liquefaction project.
  • Advised Abu Dhabi’s national oil company on its proposed take-private bid for a large Australian LNG producer.
  • Advised a listed Abu Dhabi energy maritime logistics company on the acquisition of Navig8, a global shipping platform.
  • Advised the largest drilling company in the Middle East on the establishment of Enersol, a strategic joint venture with Alpha Dhabi to invest up to $1.5 billion in technology-enabled companies in the oilfield services and energy sectors.
  • Advised an Abu Dhabi sovereign-owned entity on its strategic joint venture with Pratt & Whitney in connection with aerospace services within the EMEA region.
  • Advised a global private equity firm, Hg Capital, on its acquisition of Zenith Investment Partners from Five V Capital.
  • Advised Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) on its successful bid for Evolution Healthcare, the second largest corporate hospital platform in New Zealand.
  • Advised Cooke Aquaculture Inc. on its take-private bid for Huon Aquaculture Group Ltd (ASX:HUO).
  • Advised Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), Blackstone and Cascade consortium on its £4.7 billion take-private bid for Signature Aviation plc.
  • Advised Macquarie and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. on the sale of Wheelabrator Technologies UK, the largest pure-play waste-to-energy business in the United Kingdom (U.K.), to First Sentier Investors.
  • Advised ClimateCare, a global carbon market leader, on its capital raising from Averna Capital.
  • Advised Plenary Group for Northern Rapid Transit consortium’s financial close of the A$3.7 billion public-private partnership of Australia’s largest public transport project, Sydney Metro.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

Education
  • J.D., Monash University, 2019

Bar Admissions
  • Law Society of Victoria, Australia

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