Ben Saraci

Ben’s practice principally focuses on private and public M&A, shareholder arrangements, and general corporate law matters. Ben has experience advising clients across a variety of sectors, including consumer goods and retail, energy, financial services, gaming, healthcare, industrials, infrastructure, oil and gas and technology, media and telecommunications.

• Advising Carlsberg A/S on its GBP 3.3 billion recommended cash offer for Britvic plc.
  
  
• Advising The Olayan Group, as co-investor of Brookfield, on the GBP 2.2 billion recommended cash offer for Network International Holdings plc.
  
  
• Advising Fairfax Holdings Limited on its USD 860 million acquisition of KIPCO’s shareholding in Gulf Insurance Group and related MTO in Kuwait.
  
  
• Advising Capita plc on a series of disposals, including the sale of Security Watchdog to Bridgepoint-owned Matrix; the sale of its resourcing businesses to Inspirit Capital; and the sale of AMT-Sybex to Constellation-owned Jonas.
  
  
• Advising Neo Performance Materials, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in SG Technologies Holdings Limited.
  
  
• Advising Unikmind Holdings Limited on its cash offer for the shares of Kape Technologies plc not already owned by Unikmind, with an implied equity value for Kape of USD 1.6 billion. 
  
  
• Advising Tailwind Energy Holdings LLP on its sale of Tailwind Energy Investments Ltd to Serica Energy plc.
  
  
• Advising QinetiQ Group plc on its acquisition of Avantus Federal LLC from NewSpring.
  
  
• Advising Wilbur-Ellis in connection with the merger of its "Connell" business and Caldic B.V., owned by Advent International, to form a leading global life sciences and specialty chemicals solutions distribution platform with combined sales of c. EUR 3 billion.
  
  
• Advising Nokian Tyres on its sale of its Russian operations to Tatneft PJSC. 
  
  
• Advising Devolver Digital on its acquisition of Nerial Limited and Firefly Holdings Limited, and its IPO on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange. 
  
  
• Advising Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on the acquisition of Smarter Grid Solutions Limited.
  
  
• Advising SCG Packaging on its acquisition of Go-Pak (UK) and its Vietnamese subsidiaries.
  
  
• Advising Lamprell plc on its joint venture with Injazat to accelerate digitalisation in the energy sector.
  
  
• Advising ClearPay on its acquisition of Pagantis and PMT Technology.
  
  
• Advising Stirling Industries plc on its proposed acquisition of Ipsen International from Quadriga Capital.