Profile details
Profil Devansh Sharma
Devansh focuses on M&A and private equity transactions for private equity sponsors and other financial investors in transactions across Europe and across a range of sectors.
Devansh trained at Freshfields and has spent time on secondment to Freshfields’ Hong Kong office.
Mandate
- CVC on its IPO on Euronext Amsterdam and prior corporate reorganisation
- CD&R and Motor Fuel Group on the £2.5 billion acquisition of forecourts and electric vehicle charging sites from Morrisons
- CVC on its acquisition of Glendower Capital, a private equity firm focussing on secondary transactions which spun out of Deutsche Bank's asset management business in 2017
- Cinven on its acquisition of a majority stake in Arcaplanet and Maxi Zoo Italia
- The founders of True Potential, a UK wealth management platform, on the sale of a majority stake to Cinven
- Blackstone and Sixth Street on the sale of Kensington Mortgages and related mortgage assets to Barclays Bank UK PLC
- Greensands, the holding company of Southern Water, on the sale of a majority stake in the company in return for an investment of more than £1 billion from Macquarie Asset Management.
- The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales on the spin out of The Earthshot Prize, the global environmental prize, to formally become an independent charity
- CVC on its strategic partnership investment in Premiership Rugby, PRO14 Rugby and Six Nations
- Advent and Zentiva on the acquisition of Alvogen's CEE business
Qualifikationen
Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales