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Clifford Chance

Abi Birch

Senior Associate

Senior Associate
Abi Birch

Abi specialises in cross-border and domestic M&A, with a particular focus on private equity transactions.

She advises private equity houses, financial sponsors, infrastructure funds and corporates on a wide range of transactions across the M&A lifecycle, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, mergers, joint ventures, restructurings, carve-outs and management equity arrangements. Abi spent time on a client secondment at Cinven and on an international secondment to Clifford Chance’s office in Sydney.

  • EQT on the acquisition of AMCS, a global leader in sustainability software solutions for waste management, recycling and resource intensive companies
  • Permira on the consortium arrangements with CD&R for the public to private takeover of Exclusive Networks, a global cybersecurity specialist
  • Permira and the Alter Domus founders on the €4.9bn sale of a controlling interest in Alter Domus to Cinven
  • Brookfield on the acquisition of a 12.45% minority stake in a 3.5 GW portfolio of four operational UK offshore wind farms from Ørsted: Hornsea 1, Hornsea 2, Walney Extension, and Burbo Bank Extension
  • Middle East sovereign wealth fund on the acquisition of a 49% stake in Plenary, an Australian infrastructure investment, development and asset management platform including public-private partnerships
  • Blackstone on the merger of The Office Group with Fora (owned by Brockton Capital), a flexible workspace developer and operator in the UK and Germany
  • CD&R on the carve out of the Sharp clinical packaging business from Inizio, a global provider of healthcare and life science consulting services
  • CD&R on its $4bn public to private takeover of UDG Healthcare plc and business combination with Huntsworth (now operating as Inizio)
  • CD&R on the acquisition by Huntsworth of The Research Partnership
  • CD&R on the £9.7bn public to private takeover of Morrisons plc
  • CD&R on the acquisition of the Wolseley UK plumbing and heating distribution business from Ferguson plc
  • Cinven on the carve out of the Analytics & Services business from SYNLAB, a global medical diagnostics provider based in Germany
  • alterDomus on the acquisition of Credit Vision, a fintech platform based in the UK that provides data analytic services to financial sponsors

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