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Chris Sabine

Partner

London

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Chris Sabine

Partner

London

Chris has a wide range of experience advising private equity funds and other financial sponsors on a number of cross-border M&A transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, consortium arrangements and co-investments.

Chris has spent time on secondment at the legal team of Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited and also Allen & Overy's Amsterdam office.

Experience highlights

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Expertise

Practices

Private Equity

Sectors

Private Equity

Office

London

One Bishops Square
London
E1 6AD

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as a Solicitor (England and Wales), 2013

Academic

BA Hons, History, London School of Economics, 2008

Other noteworthy experience

Advising:

  • Exponent Private Equity on a number of transactions, including the acquisitions of Eat Real, TRS Foods, East End Foods, Photobox and Wowcher and the disposal of Loch Lomond Distillery Company.
  • Bridgepoint on its acquisition of Qualitest from Marlin Private Equity.
  • 3i Infrastructure plc on the acquisition of Global Cloud Xchange.
  • FNZ, the global wealth management platform, on its USD1.4bn equity fundraising from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Motive Partners, valuing the group at over USD20bn.
  • Charterhouse Capital Partners on the acquisition of Telio from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG.
  • Caisse de dépôt et placement du Quebec on its investment in a Lloyds specialist insurance vehicle, and the related acquisition of Starstone Underwriting Limited from Enstar and Stone Point.
  • PAI Partners on the sale of the caprolactone division of Perstorp for EUR590m to Ingevity Corporation.
  • EQT on its EUR3bn disposal of Bureau van Dijk to Moody's Corporation.
  • OMERS and AIMCo on their acquisitions of ERM and Vue Entertainment.
  • Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund and Ferrovial Aeropuertos on their joint acquisition of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports for GBP1.048bn.