Samira Afrasiabi

About Samira Afrasiabi

Samira is a corporate partner in our global transactions group.

She advises corporate clients and financial investors on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. 

Recent work

• BASF on the merger between Wintershall Dea and Harbour Energy, with the Wintershall Dea assets valued at US$11.2bn.
• bp on the sale of a non-controlling stake to Apollo in bp’s subsidiary that holds a 20% interest in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline for approx. US$1bn.
• Rolls Royce SMR on its partnership with CEZ Group to deploy SMRs in the UK and Czechia.
• Haleon plc on various matters including its $3.1bn secondary global offering by Pfizer and $400m share buyback and its demerger from GSK plc and its listing on the London Stock Exchange.
• General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero on its lead investment in Venterra’s fourth fundraising round of £150 million.
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation on the sale of its Ghana assets to Kosmos Energy and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation for an aggregate headline price of US$750 million.
• Tullow Oil plc on the sale of its entire stake in the Lake Albert Development Project in Uganda to TotalEnergies for US$575 million in cash plus post first oil contingent payments.
• Hess Corporation on the sale of its Ghana interests to Aker Energy and other M&A transactions.
• The joint administrators of Arcadia on the sale of its Topshop, Topman and other clothing brands to ASOS, Boohoo and City Chic.
• UKGI in relation to HMT’s trading plan and sale of shares in NatWest Group.
• General Atlantic on the partial sell down of its stake in the Argus Media Group to Hg.
• Novartis on the separation and subsequent spin-off of the Alcon business.
• CK Hutchison on the creation of a 50:50 joint venture with Veon to combine their telecoms businesses in Italy.
• Novartis on the $16bn acquisition of GSK’s worldwide oncology business, which was part of three inter-conditional transactions entered into with GSK.