Saav Shah

Saavan Shah is an associate attorney in the London office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions, Energy & Infrastructure and Oil & Gas Practice Groups.

Saav’s experience focuses on transactions and projects in the oil and gas, power and infrastructure sectors as well as general M&A. Saav has broad expertise advising on a wide spectrum of corporate matters, including both cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, as well as general corporate governance and advisory work.

Saav has advised on country entry, including bid-rounds, farm-ins, PSC (as applicable) and JOA negotiations in numerous countries including: Algeria, Angola, Brazil, Colombia, Cyprus, Egypt, the Falkland Islands, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Gabon, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal and Venezuela.

Saav has previously spent time on secondment at the Carlyle Group, working closely with members of the CIEP (Carlyle International Energy Partners) fund as well as their general buyout and strategic funds.

Selected experience*:

Energy and Infrastructure

• KKR and the consortium of KKR and Energy Capital Partners on the proposed £5.75 billion take-private acquisition of DCC Energy plc, an international energy sales and distribution group, and a constituent of the FTSE 100. This will be KKR’s largest public-to-private transaction in Europe in more than a decade.
• Chevron on the $2.17 billion sale of its interest in the SRC Refinery in Singapore, and its fuels station networks and related businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Australia to ENEOS Corporation.
• Carlyle International Energy Partners on its sale of SierraCol Energy to Prime Infrastructure.
• The sponsors and joint financial advisers on the £6 billion primary listing of Metlen Energy & Metals, a global energy and metals group based in Greece, on the London Stock Exchange.
• Denham Capital on its US$ 367 million sale of a c.56% equity stake in Alphamin Resources Corp.
• ADNOC Drilling and Alpha Dhabi on their joint US$ 45 million acquisition of EV Holdings Limited.
• GIC on its US$ 750 million acquisition from BlackRock of a c.45% equity stake in GasLog Ltd, an LNG shipping company.
• TotalEnergies on its $1.2 billion acquisition of CEPSA's upstream assets in Abu Dhabi.
• TotalEnergies on its US$330 million sale of its interest in the Dunga oil and gas field to KazMunayGas.
• RWE on its c.GBP 1 billion acquisition of the Norfolk Zone windfarms from Vattenfall.
• RWE on its joint venture with Masdar to develop the Dogger Bank South offshore wind projects.
• Carlyle International Energy Partners on its $1.3 billion sale of Assala Energy to the Gabon Oil Company.
• Vitol on the $2 billion acquisition of Engen Petroleum, a group with a significant Southern African fuels retail network.
• EIG on its US$19 billion joint venture with Repsol Upstream, a newly-formed global oil and gas exploration and production company.
• Vivo Energy (subsidiary of Vitol) on the acquisition of Engen Limited (South African downstream business) from Petronas and The Phembani Group, and subsequent reinvestment of local shareholders.
• Energy Capital Partners on the £341 million sale of Triton Power to Equinor and SSE Thermal.
• Ara Partners on its acquisition of FNX Liquid Natural Gas, a Spain-based company specializing in biogas capture and conversion via both compression and liquefaction technologies for vehicular and industrial applications.
• SierraCol Energy (a Carlyle portfolio company) on its US$825 million acquisition of Occidental’s (Oxy) entire onshore oil and gas portfolio in Colombia.
• Carlyle International Energy Partners on the acquisition of Shell Upstream Gabon by portfolio company Assala Energy
• Iberdrola on its sale of a 40% stake of East Anglia, a UK-based provider of energy services, to Green Investment Group.
• Chevron on its $1.6 billion sale of its North Sea oil and gas business to Ithaca Energy.

General M&A / Private Equity / Other

• British Columbia Investment Management Corporation on its EUR 78 million acquisition of a c.33% stake in Atypical Partner Ltd, a holding company of an asset management business.
• StandardAero, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, on the acquisition of the engine repair and overhaul business of Signature Aviation, a UK-based provider of aviation services and aftermarket support.
• BenevolentAI, a leading, clinical-stage AI-enabled drug discovery company, on its business combination with Odyssey Acquisition S.A., a Euronext Amsterdam-listed special purpose acquisition company.
• TA Associates on its investment in Söderberg & Partners, a Sweden-based provider of wealth management and corporate pension and insurance services.
• The shareholders of Eleusis, a life science company dedicated to unlocking the full therapeutic power of psychedelics, on the sale of Eleusis to Beckley Psytech.
• NVIDIA on its proposed US$40 billion acquisition of Arm Limited, the Cambridge-headquartered semiconductor and software design company, from SoftBank.

*Includes matters prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Capabilities

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Energy and Infrastructure
• Oil and Gas
• Power and Renewables
• Private Equity

Credentials

Education:

• BPP Law School - 2020 Legal Practice Course
• London School of Economics & Political Science - 2017 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

Admissions:

• England & Wales - Solicitor