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Alexander Duffy

Senior Associate

Senior Associate
Alexander Duffy

Alex is a Senior Associate in our Riyadh office and is part of the Corporate  team. Alex has considerable experience in the area of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and specialises in advising financial sponsors on M&A transactions.

He advises on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactional and corporate advisory matters and has experience advising bidders and targets on commercial and contractual issues, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.

Alex is a results driven individual who is recognised by his clients and colleagues as technically excellent and commercially minded.

Outside of his core specialties, Alex also has experience with foreign direct investment approvals, shareholders governance arrangements, incentive schemes and W&I underwriting processes.

  • Five V Capital / Mulpha on the $450 million sale of the Education Perfect online learning business to KKR
  • BlackRock on its investment into Ditrolic Energy, one of the largest renewable energy developers in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
  • BlackRock on its significant minority investment into CleanTech Global Renewables*
  • Adamantem on the buyout of Climate Friendly (an industry leading carbon farming business) and subsequent sell-down to Mitsui
  • Allegro Funds on its acquisition of the master franchise rights to Pizza Hut in Australia from Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM)
  • AirTrunk, a hyper-scale datacentre business, on its ~$3 billion sale to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA)*
  • Dell Technologies on the ~$2 billion sale of RSA Security to Symphony Technology Group*
  • Salesforce.com, Inc. on its $800 million acquisition and integration of Datorama Inc.*
  • Michelin its $1.45 billion acquisition and integration of Canadian private corporation Casmo Inc.*
  • Ciena Corporation on its acquisition of privately-held software provider DonRiver, LLC*
  • Daimler AG on its strategic global restructuring

    *Transactions advised on prior to joining Clifford Chance or while on secondment 

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