Zeynep Kocabas

Zeynep’s experience includes advising:

• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. on its US$1.24 billion acquisition of BETA CAE
• Two Circles and its shareholders, including Bruin Capital, on the sale of a majority stake in Two Circles
• AllianceBernstein on the joint venture between its Sanford C Bernstein broker/dealer business and Societe Generale
• TA Associates on its investment in MRH Trowe, one of the largest owner-managed commercial lines insurance brokers in Germany, alongside its reinvesting founders and AnaCap Financial Partners
• TA Associates on its sale and reinvestment alongside Hg Capital in the Access Group, a leading provider of business management software, valuing Access at £9.2 billion
• Astorg Partners on the acquisition of IQ-EQ by a €1.3 billion continuation fund in partnership with AlpInvest and Goldman Sachs Asset Management Vintage Funds, alongside a diverse group of limited partners
• SIG on its purchase of its acquisition of Evergreen Asia, Pactiv Evergreen’s Asian cartons business for US$335 million
• SIG on its acquisition of sustainable packaging business Scholle IPN for €1.05 billion
• Corporate aspects of the restructuring of Swissport, a global aviation services group
• Duke Street, Wagamama management, and certain other shareholders in connection with the acquisition by The Restaurant Group plc of the Wagamama group
• DNEG, the international visual effects company, in connection with its proposed IPO on the London Stock Exchange
• GlaxoSmithKline, in connection with the divestment of certain assets
• Thomas Cook, in connection with its restructuring and the preparation of a scheme of arrangement
• Savannah Petroleum plc in respect of its investment in, and acquisition of, Nigerian oil and gas assets of the Seven Energy group