Ghadah Alotaibi

Recent examples of Ghadah’s work include assisting in the representation of:

• Naturium in its US$355 million acquisition by e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
• VENUplus Inc. (formerly known as CTM Group, Inc.), a portfolio company of the private equity arm of Z Capital Group, in its acquisition of ScooterBug Best Lockers.
• Northpond Ventures in its convertible preferred stock and warrant investment in Telesis Bio (Nasdaq: TBIO), which provides molecular biology automation solutions for multi-omic and synthetic biology applications.
• A large financial group in its SAR 55.5 billion (approximately US$14.8 billion) statutory merger with a commercial bank, including the subsequent statutory merger between the financial group and a commercial bank – the first statutory merger between two capital market institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• A large Saudi petrochemical company on its US$2.2 billion “merger of equals” with another large petrochemicals company.
• A building company, a wholly owned subsidiary of a sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on Saudi Arabia’s first social infrastructure program, the first of its kind in the GCC region.
• A large financial group on its US$366 million financing of the expansion of a port by a logistics company, a winner of a 30-year concession agreement with a national authority to build, operate and transfer a part of the port.
• A large financial group in its US$312 million financing of a real estate development company for the development, design, financing, construction, commissioning and operation and maintenance of residential compounds to house employees of an oil company.

*Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.