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About Samira Afrasiabi

Samira is a corporate partner in our global transactions group.

She advises corporate clients and financial investors on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. 

Recent work

  • BASF on the merger between Wintershall Dea and Harbour Energy, with the Wintershall Dea assets valued at US$11.2bn.
  • bp on the sale of a non-controlling stake to Apollo in bp’s subsidiary that holds a 20% interest in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline for approx. US$1bn.
  • Haleon plc on the $3.1bn secondary global offering by Pfizer and $400m share buyback, and on its demerger from GSK plc and its listing on the London Stock Exchange.
  • General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero on its lead investment in Venterra’s fourth fundraising round of £150 million.
  • Occidental Petroleum Corporation on the sale of its Ghana assets to Kosmos Energy and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation for an aggregate headline price of US$750 million.
  • Tullow Oil plc on the sale of its entire stake in the Lake Albert Development Project in Uganda to TotalEnergies for US$575 million in cash plus post first oil contingent payments.
  • Hess Corporation on the sale of its Ghana interests to Aker Energy and other M&A transactions.
  • The joint administrators of Arcadia on the sale of its Topshop, Topman and other clothing brands to ASOS, Boohoo and City Chic.
  • UKGI in relation to HMT’s trading plan and sale of shares in NatWest Group.
  • General Atlantic on the partial sell down of its stake in the Argus Media Group to Hg.
  • Novartis on the separation and subsequent spin-off of the Alcon business.
  • CK Hutchison on the creation of a 50:50 joint venture with Veon to combine their telecoms businesses in Italy.
  • Novartis on the $16bn acquisition of GSK’s worldwide oncology business, which was part of three inter-conditional transactions entered into with GSK.

Qualifications

University of Melbourne, Australia (bachelor of laws and bachelor of engineering (mechanical))