Panashe is an Associate in our Global Transactions team, based in Dubai. He previously spent six years in our London office, advising on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. His practice also includes general corporate advisory, governance, and regulatory compliance.
His experience spans a range of sectors, including TMT, Energy and Infrastructure and Sports.
Panashe trained at Freshfields, with a secondment to Liberty Global’s M&A team, and later undertook a client secondment with BT Group’s Corporate Transactions team.
He is an active member of our Africa Group and contributes to our diversity and inclusion initiatives. Panashe holds a First Class Honours degree in Law from the London School of Economics.
Private M&A
- PSP Investments and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on its proposed sale of Cubico Sustainable Investments (which, if completed, will be one of the largest UK infrastructure deals in recent years)
- DAZN Group Limited on its purchase of Eleven Sports Network Limited
- Mercuria Energy Trading on its additional investment in N+P Group
- Macromill, Inc. on its sale of its UK MetrixLab data analytics business
- Aurubis SmbH on its sale of its UK business
- Novartis on its potential acquisition of GlaxoSmithKline plc’s global cephalosporin business (trainee)
- Solvay GmbH on its sale of its amphoteric surfactants business (trainee)
- APG Asset Management on its proposed acquisition of an interest in Eurofiber Netherlands BV (trainee)
Public M&A
- Saudi National Bank on its proposed takeover of a (confidential) UK plc
- DWS Infrastructure fund on its successful takeover of Stagecoach plc
- Entain plc on its successful defense against a proposed takeover by DraftKings plc
- Allied Universal on its successful takeover of G4S plc (trainee)
- AA plc on its successful takeover by TowerBrook Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus (trainee)
Equity Capital Markets
- Compass plc on two separate share buyback programmes
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