Arslane Hatem

Africa EMI and Projects

• Advised the Gabon Oil Company in relation to the historical exercise of its preemption right to acquire Carlyle's Assala Energy for USD 1.3 billion to Maurel & Prom France.

• Advised China International Water & Electric, a subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corporation, in the development, structuring and financing of the 690 MW Kaléta and Souapiti hydropower projects and their transmission lines in the state of Guinea for a financing of USD 1.3 billion.

• Advised CanalOlympia, a Vivendi affiliate, in the implementation of their multimedia infrastructure, the first model of concert halls and cinemas on the continent, in 18 Francophone and Anglophone African jurisdictions (Cameroon, Guinea, Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger, Togo, Gabon, DRC, Congo, Madagascar, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire) as well as putting in place and structuring their multimedia infrastructure's renewable energy supply agreements in 18 Francophone and Anglophone African jurisdictions.

• Advised a gold mining group in the acquisition of gold mining groups of companies and permits in an African jurisdiction.

• Advised Afri Partners in relation the construction and concession of a bulk carrier terminal in Douala, Cameroon.

• Assisted clients like Google, Tencent, Caterpillar, HP, Applied Materials, Stripe, Byte Dance in their regulatory due diligence with regards to their implementation in multiple African jurisdictions.

Africa Transactional Matters (Corporate and/or M&A)

• Advised Sika on its EUR 5.3 billion acquisition of the Master Builder Construction Chemicals (MBCC) Group from Lone Star, with six major regulators to align behind a global timeline to re-move competition concerns and divest MBCC’s concrete admixtures business to the international private equity investor Cinven (countries including Algeria, Egypt and Tanzania).

• Advised Sika regarding its Tanzania-related integration (mergers, amalgamations, changes) of MBS or Master Builders into the Sika framework as part of Project Eleven.

• Advised Baker Hughes on the sale of its global Nexus Controls business to GE Power involving more than 50 seamless local transfers in 1 day (countries including Algeria, Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria).

• Advised Olam on the reorganisation and carveouts of its business into three distinct operating groups in, inter alia, Gabon, Ivory Coast and Togo.

• Advising PE firm Rhône Capital and its affiliate Wellbore Integrity Solutions on the acquisition of the drilling and fishing businesses from Schlumberger in several African jurisdictions (in particular in South Africa, Congo, Gabon, Angola and Algeria) and expansion in the African region.

France Transactional M&A (Corporate and/or M&A)

• Advising UL Solutions Inc. in relation to the French aspects of the carve-out and sale of its payment certification and testing business to FIME, a French company.

• Advised Baker Hughes on the sale of its French global Nexus Controls business to GE Power involving more than 50 seamless local transfers in 1 day.

• Advised Sika on its EUR 5.3 billion acquisition of the Master Builder Construction Chemicals (MBCC) Group from Lone Star and divestment of MBCC’s concrete admixtures business to Cinven in relation to the French carveout.

• Advised Culligan International Company in relation to its due diligence on a French group of companies in view of its acquisition of Primo Water, a publicly listed Canadian company.

• Advised Celanese Corporation in relation to the French aspects of the carve-out acquisition of DuPont's performance materials business for a purchase price of USD 11 billion.

• Pro bono – Assisted the Consortium for Street Children in the implementation of a guide on street children's rights in Togo regarding Status Offences (i.e. runaway children, begging, vagrancy, truancy, moral offences, victims of sexual exploitation, marriage for minors) as a contribution to the Consortium Atlas Guide.