Sanja Udovicic
AshurstAshurst‘s London emerging markets group provides ’invaluable pragmatic, robust advice‘ on project development, project finance, M&A, capital markets, dispute resolution, competition and antitrust, real estate, tax and much more. Head of the Africa group Yann Alix and head of Africa project finance Matthew Wood are the lead partners. Alix recently advised on the development and financing of a large potash project in Morocco. As well as a strong flow of work in Africa, the firm is growing its presence in other emerging markets and its new India desk, co-led by Kalpana Unadkat and Shishir Mehta, formerly of Khaitan & Co LLP in Mumbai, represents a major investment. The firm also hired Sanja Udovicic from A&O Shearman in May 2023. Udovicic handles energy, natural resource, infrastructure, telecoms and media projects in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Energy and resources sector lawyer Quentin Robinson, and head of international arbitration Matthew Saunders are among many London partners handling a strong flow of emerging markets matters.
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- 'The team was highly experienced with capital markets and UK Takeover Code transactions. This allowed invaluable pragmatic, robust advice which understood the goal whilst also ensuring protection of the company, its board and directors.'
- 'Tom Mercer was unique given his prior experience at the takeover panel and the many UK Code transactions he had acted on. This was complemented by sector and jurisdictional expertise, which was quite an unusual combination for a complex and challenging transaction.'
Key clients
- China Development Bank
- JBIC
- JP Morgan Securities
- Managem
- ONE Dyas
- Petra Diamonds
- Rockhopper
- Schlemmer Group
- SMFG
Work highlights
- Advised Meta on 2Africa, including the 2Africa Pearls extension, which will see the subsea cable project increase connectivity for approximately 3 billion people.
- Advised Wentworth Resources plc on all aspects of its £61.7 million recommended cash acquisition by Etablissements Maurel & Prom S.A. announced on 5 December 2022.
- Advised ADNOC and TAQA on the procurement, financing and development of Project Wave, a nanofiltration and water transmission project in Abu Dhabi.
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Yann Alix, Matthew Wood