Baz Banai
Associate
bbanai@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity Transactions
- Corporate & Finance
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Special Situations
- Sovereign and Government Investors
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Private Capital
Biography
Temporarily on a Full-Time Client Secondment.
- Maintains a diverse corporate practice.
Baz Banai is an associate in the corporate team in Abu Dhabi. He advises on corporate matters and transactions including mergers & acquisitions, private equity and joint ventures across various sectors.
Prior to joining Akin, Baz worked at a leading international law firm in Melbourne and a magic circle law firm in London, where he advised global private equity funds and financial sponsors.
Representative Work
- 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.*
EducationJ.D., Monash University, 2019
J.D., Monash University, 2019
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society of Victoria, Australia
Law Society of Victoria, Australia
