Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Sarah Shaw
Partner
Languages
English, French, German
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Sarah is a seasoned M&A practitioner with an impressive range of experience advising on private acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructurings and business transfers.
Sarah's clients include a wide range of corporates, private equity funds, DFIs and infrastructure funds, whom she advises on their most complex and high-profile transactions.
Sarah is a member of our M&A leadership team. She has experience across a number of sectors including, in particular, oil and gas, power, renewable energy, infrastructure and real estate.
Her practice is international and includes a particular focus on Africa and other emerging markets, where she has acted on some of the most significant platform M&A transactions in the energy sector in recent years.
Sarah is recommended as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 (2024) for M&A, and was recently identified as one of the best and brightest up and coming female lawyers in the UK by Law.com International. She is commended by clients for her user-friendly approach and ability to combine technical excellence with commercial, pragmatic advice.
Representative experience
Brookfield Asset Management on its sale of a 49% shareholding in PD Ports Limited to Pontegadea
Bohai Leasing on the US$1.75bn sale of Global Sea Containers Limited to Stonepeak
Chevron on its country entry in Namibia through a series of share and asset acquisitions to acquire an 80% operated working interest in Petroleum Exploration Licence 82 and farm-down to QatarEnergy
DCC plc on the divestment of its Info Tech business in the UK and Ireland to AURELIUS
Helios Energy Investments on the sale of its stake in Bio Capital to Equitix
Chevron on its country exit from the Republic of Congo through the sale of Chevron Overseas (Congo) Limited holdings interests in the Nkossa, Nsoko II, Moho-Bilondo and Lianzi fields to Trident Energy
DCC plc on the sale of a majority stake in its Hong Kong and Macau liquid gas business
IFC on its US$40m CLN investment in Egyptian fintech firm MNT Halan
International Finance Corporation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Polish Development Fund on their US$290m equity investment in Elemental Holding
Infratil, the listed vehicle of the New Zealand based infrastructure fund Morrison & Co, on its £130m investment in a 40% stake in the Kao data centre in Harlow
The Smedvig Family on the sale of the Norwegian Green Mountain data centre group to the Azrieli Group for US$850m
KBR on its US$400m acquisition of Frazer-Nash Consultancy from Babcock
AmerisourceBergen on its US$6.47bn acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.’s Alliance Healthcare wholesale distribution business in Europe
Ford Motor Company on the establishment of a fleet management business in Europe with ALD Automotive
CPI Property Group S.A. (CPIPIG) on the €1.57bn joint takeover of Globalworth Real Estate investment Limited by CPIPG and Aroundtown SA
Prologis on the sale of a US$1.1bn portfolio of logistics properties in Europe and North America to Mapletree
MBH on the £95m sale of Millennium Bridge House in London EC4 to Beltane Asset Management and Angelo Gordon
BASF on the UK aspects of its US$3.5bn joint venture with Solenis
PPG on the UK aspects of the acquisition of Whitford Worldwide Company
CDC on its joint acquisition with Norfund to acquire Globeleq, the leading pan-African power generation platform
Credentials
Education
- Master, University of Cambridge
- Legal Practice Course
- Diploma, BPP University Law School
Recognition
Events
Hogan Lovells Events
16 November 2023 | 4:00 p.m. (GMT)
Webinar
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Hogan Lovells Events
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PDT | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST | 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. BST