About
Xavier is an Associate in our Hong Kong office specialising in advising private equity sponsors and other financial investors across a range of sectors.
Xavier trained and qualified at Freshfields and has previously been seconded to Blackstone in London and the US M&A team in New York.
Advising Blackstone on its £1.4bn recommended acquisition of Senior plc.
Advising Warburg Pincus on its:
- $1.7bn acquisition of Specialist Risk Group; and
- $2.0bn sale of McGill and Partners to EQT.
Advising Cinven on its sale of Partner in Pet Food to CVC.
Advising CVC on its $925m carve-out acquisition of the Therakos business from global specialty pharma company Mallinckrodt.
Advising Advent on its $4.8bn sale of Zentiva to GTCR.
Advising General Atlantic on its investment in Partners Capital Investment Group.
Advising Silver Lake portfolio company ZPG and its shareholders on the sale of Hometrack to Providence Equity Partners.
Advising BP plc on the sale of a 65% stake in Castrol to Stonepeak at an enterprise value of $10bn.


Xavier Chitnavis
55th Floor, One Island East
Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay
Hong Kong