Max’s experience includes advising:

• a sovereign wealth fund on its co-investment alongside one of the world’s largest infrastructure asset managers in the multi-billion dollar take-private of an U.S. utility (2025);
• a sovereign wealth fund on its acquisition, as part of a consortium with a European private equity firm, of a controlling stake in an airport ground equipment business (2025);
• a sovereign wealth fund on the disposal of the majority stake in Calisen and MapleCo held by it alongside funds managed by BlackRock and Goldman Sachs to a consortium comprising EQT and GIC (2024);
• a sovereign wealth fund on its single-asset co-investment, through a limited partnership managed by one of the world's preeminent asset management firms, in a Korean industrial gas business (2024);
• a sovereign wealth fund on its subscription for equity in a UK credit investor in a “GP stake” deal that involved a concurrent $1bn LP commitment to the GP’s managed funds (2024);
• a regional bank on its bid to acquire the British and Swiss private banking units of a European bank (2024);
• a regional private equity investor on its buyout of a UK schools business from a European real estate private equity investor (2024);
• a regional investment manager on the formation of a joint venture with two investment professionals in relation to exchange-traded funds (2024);
• OSN, the Dubai satellite TV and streaming company, on the asset-for-share contribution of its video streaming business to NASDAQ-listed Anghami Inc., which led to OSN becoming the majority shareholder of Anghami, the leading MENA audio streaming provider (2023);
• Alpha Dhabi on the formation of a 50:50 joint venture with ADNOC Drilling Company to invest up to $1.5 billion in the oilfield services sector and the related contribution of the seed asset to the JV (2023);
• a sovereign wealth fund on the acquisition by a consortium comprising the client, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs of a UK meter asset provider, Mapleco, from Equitix. The transaction was a bolt-on to the consortium’s portfolio company, Calisen, and led to Equitix rolling into the consortium (2022);
• Alpha Dhabi on: (i) the formation of a joint venture with Monterock, a Dubai-based investor, to invest in hospitality assets around the world; and (ii) the contribution of Monterock’s stake in European luxury lifestyle group Nammos to the joint venture (2022);
• a sovereign wealth fund on the formation of a real estate platform JV with CBRE and Healthcare Activos, a Spanish real estate manager, in relation to residential healthcare facilities in Spain and Portugal (2021);
• Mubadala Capital on its £560m leveraged buy-out of the Witherslack Group, a UK special educational needs schools business, from funds managed by Charme Capital Partners and Livingbridge, who rolled over into the new structure alongside management (2021);
• a regional oil and gas company on its joint venture with a Swiss commodities trading company for the offtake and marketing of crude oil (2021);
• Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, as joint financial advisers to MBK Partners, on MBK Partners’ US$1.1bn voluntary general offer under the Hong Kong Takeovers Code to acquire CAR Inc., China’s largest car rental company (2020);*
• a U.S. private equity firm on the auction sale process for the disposal of its minority investment in a privately-held Chinese insurer to two major European financial institutions (2020);*
• the Series C investors in Ant Group, the digital payments arm of Alibaba, on their exit by way of participation in the high profile and aborted IPO and listing of Ant Group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2020);*
• Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, on the US$5.75 billion spin-off listing of its Asia-Pacific business on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2019);* and
• Aqualand, a Chinese residential property developer, on its PIPE investment in McGrath Limited, an ASX-listed real estate agency (2018).*

* Experience gained prior to joining Freshfields.