Herbert Smith Freehills LLP’s diverse workload encompasses first-of-its-kind M&A, tower sales and leaseback transactions in the Philippines, infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia, energy transition mandates and private equity investments. Focusing on M&A and equity investments into infrastructure assets, Glynn Cooper jointly leads the practice alongside Malika Chandrasegaran, who advises on M&A, joint ventures and other commercial transactions in the technology, media and consumer sectors. Peiwen Chen, who acts for financial sponsors, corporates and sovereign wealth funds on cross-border transactions, is another key contact in the group. Jamie McLaren left in February 2024.
Testimonials
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‘Quick turnaround time and in-depth understanding of the commercial issues that drive a transaction.’
‘Malika Chandrasegaran is detailed and gets the big picture easily.’
Key clients
- BlackRock
- Zain Group and TASC Towers Holding
Work highlights
- Advising BlackRock on its establishment of a Southeast Asia renewable energy platform, including the platform's first investment in up to five large scale solar projects in the Philippines with total capacity of 1GW.
- Advised Zain Group and TASC Towers Holding (TASC) on a telecommunications towers and joint venture deal with Ooredoo, which will see the parties combine their mobile telecommunicators tower portfolios to create the largest independent towers company in the MENA region.