About
Kende is an associate in the Corporate team in our Dubai Global Transactions practice.
Kende advises clients across a wide range of sectors on private and public M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and listed company matters.
Kende trained at the firm’s London office. During his training contract he was seconded to the Dubai office, following which he made a permanent move to the Middle East on qualification.
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- Advising Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company on the successful reorganisation of McLaren.
- Advising Renault Group on its 50/50 joint venture with Geely and the carve-out of its combustion and hybrid engines business.
- Advising Aston Martin on a strategic supply agreement with Lucid.
- Advising DAZN Group, a leading global sports platform, on the closing of its acquisition of Eleven Sports Network Limited.
- Advising a consortium of Arcapita and Dgpays on its acquisition of a 65% stake in IDFAA Payment Services LLC, the merchant acquiring and issuer processing business of Mashreqbank PSC, trading under the name Neopay.
- Advising Kee Safety and Intermediate Capital Group on an investment from Inflexion and 65 Equity Partners, valuing Kee Safety at approximately £1.3bn.
- Advising ADQ on the sale of its 51% stake in NTS Middle East FZCO, a global specialist manufacturing and services provider of drilling tools and equipment for the oil & gas sector.
- Advising SSE on the £1.465bn divestment of a 25% stake in its electricity transmission network business to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
- Advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on its acquisition of Fosroc, a leading global construction chemicals player for $1.025bn.
- Advising Stanley Black & Decker on the closing of the sale of its global electronic security solutions and healthcare solutions business to Securitas AB.
- Advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on the sale of its UK building distribution business to Stark Group, a CVC portfolio company, following a competitive auction.
- Advising Planet Pharmacies Limited Company and Kawakeb AlSaydailyat Company LLC on the sale of 100% of the shares in Zahrat Al Rawdah Pharmacies Company LLC to BinDawood Holding Company.
- Advising Global One Healthcare Holding, the healthcare division of Yas Holding LLC, on the sale of four pharmaceutical companies in the UAE to Kelix Bio.
Kende Szabo
Associate
Dubai Office
ICD Brookfield Place, Level 13
Al Mustaqbal St, Trade Centre
DIFC, PO Box 506569
Dubai