About Max Sanders

Max is a senior associate in our Global Transactions group focusing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions.

Recent work

• Moderna on its ten-year agreement with the State of Victoria to establish a state-of-the-art, domestic mRNA manufacturing facility at Monash University.
• América Móvil on its pending transaction to sell Claro Panama to Liberty Latin America.
• Stagwell Media on its combination with MDC Partners.
• Google on its $4.5bn transaction with Jio Platforms, including commercial agreements to develop an affordable smartphone with an optimized operating system.
• Royal Caribbean on the carve-out sale of its high-end cruise business, Azamara, to Sycamore Partners.
• Airbus on its joint venture with Bombardier regarding the “C Series” (now “A220”) aircraft program and on the subsequent exit of Bombardier from the joint venture.
• CVC Capital Partners on its $1.37 billion acquisition of Ontic, a provider of OEM-licensed parts for legacy aerospace platforms, from BBA Aviation.
• Novartis on its $5.3 billion acquisition of the Xiidra^® business from Shire North American Group.
• A multinational chemicals company on its €7.6 billion acquisition of significant components of Bayer’s and Monsanto’s seed, agricultural and chemical businesses.
• Starbucks Corporation on its $7.15 billion global coffee alliance with Nestlé.
• ABB on its $7.8 billion sale of its power grids business to a joint venture with Hitachi.
• Continental AG on its $266 million acquisition of Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.’s anti-vibration systems business.
• Catalent on its acquisition of a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Anagni, Italy from Bristol-Myers Squibb.
• International General Insurance on its Nasdaq listing, PIPE capital raise and merger with SPAC Tiberius Acquisition Corp.
• KLX Inc. on the $4.2 billion take-private of its Aerospace Solutions Group by The Boeing Company and on the spin-off of its Energy Services Group (now KLX Energy Services) to KLX shareholders.