Olisa Maduegbuna’s practice focuses on private equity and venture capital investments, fund formation, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters.

Olisa joined the firm in 2019 and was resident in the London office before joining the Abu Dhabi office in 2021.

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Notable Experience

Notable Experience

  • Brookfield Business Partners in its acquisition of 60% of Magnati, the payment solutions business of First Abu Dhabi Bank at an implied valuation of up to $1.15 billion.

  • Euronext on its €4.4 billion acquisition of Borsa Italiana from the London Stock Exchange Group (Winner, “Corporate Team of the Year,” 2021 Legal Business Awards).

  • GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. on its acquisition of InfiniLink Inc., an Egyptian startup in the semiconductor sector.

  • A leading Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on over $1 billion worth of venture capital investments into major pharmaceutical, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce sector companies.

  • Several leading GCC sovereign wealth funds in numerous multibillion-dollar LP investments in funds, direct investments, and co-investment transactions.

  • A leading GCC fund of funds company on various anchor LP investments into emerging Middle Eastern venture capital funds.

  • A GCC sovereign wealth fund in the restructuring of a portfolio of commercial real estate assets with an aggregate value of approximately $1 billion.

  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, as a selling shareholder, in the $2.6 billion initial public offering and listing of Galderma Group AG on the SIX Swiss Exchange (the largest IPO in the world in Q1 2024).

  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, as a member of a group of leading shareholders, in the sale of an aggregate 10% stake in Galderma to L’Oréal.

  • OCI N.V. as a majority shareholder in the IPO and listing of Fertiglobe plc. Fertiglobe was the first ADGM company to list its shares on the ADX.

  • A major institutional investor in the acquisition of a minority stake in G42, a UAE-based artificial intelligence development holding company.

  • The Government of Barbados in relation to its 2019 domestic and external debt restructuring. Barbados became the only country in the world whose public debt stock is climate resilient as a result of the inclusion of the innovative “natural disaster clause” in its debt instruments (Winner, “Restructuring Team of the Year”, 2020 British Legal Awards). 

  • Wockhardt, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology major, in its landmark agreements with AstraZeneca and the UK government (BEIS) for the manufacture and supply of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for the United Kingdom. 

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