Adnan Bekdur

• Represented Dream Games, developer and publisher of mobile games Royal Match and Royal Kingdom, on a strategic investment from CVC.
• Represented Emirates International Investment Company, a company controlled by National Holding LLC, a leading UAE investment group, on its minority investment in Joe & The Juice, an international chain of juice bars and coffee shops.
• Represented Marathon Asset Management on its investment into a Brookfield-led single-asset fund formed to invest US$2 billion by way of preferred shares into GEMS Education, a global private school operator based in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Represented BlueWater Energy on the sale of leading engineering company Kent (headquartered in UAE) to Nesma & Partners (based in Saudi Arabia).
• Represented Kent, a BlueWater Energy portfolio company, on its acquisition of the oil and gas and engineering and consulting business of SNC-Lavalin.
• Represented TruKKer on its US$100 million Series C funding round, with key investors including Mubadala and Investcorp.
• Represented Lunate, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered alternative investment manager, on its acquisition of a strategic stake in Azura Partners, a UK-based wealth manager serving ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and single-family offices.
• Represented Mubadala on its investment, alongside Starz, into a vehicle formed to originate, acquire, finance and dispose of commercial real estate loans.
• Represented the Industrialization and Energy Services Company (TAQA) on its 100% acquisition of Al Mansoori Petroleum Services LLC, an Abu Dhabi-based oilfield services provider, for approximately US$1 billion.
• Represented A15, a technology investment fund, on the sale of a 76% stake in United Arab Emirates-based fintech company TPAY Mobile FZ-LLC to Helios Investment Partners.
• Represented A15 Holding Netherlands B.V. on its sale of 86% of its shares in Connect Ads DMCC, a leading MENA provider of digital advertising, to the Aleph Internet Media Services group.
• Represented Armira on its acquisition of a 40% stake in Pharos Group, a leading pharmaceutical group based in Greece.
• Represented CVC Capital Partners on its EUR 942 million acquisition of Partner in Pet Food Group, valuing the pan-European pet food manufacturer at an enterprise value of EUR 1.5 billion.
• Represented FutureLife a.s., a pan-European IVF services provider and CVC Capital portfolio company, on its acquisition of London IVF clinic The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health.
• Represented Actis on its EUR 500 million acquisition of a telecom towers business carved out from state-owned Telekom Srbija, encompassing 1,800 towers across Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
• Represented Alpha Bank on the partial disposal of a large and diverse portfolio of real estate assets in Greece.
• Represented Centerbridge Partners and Gallatin Point Capital on their acquisition of a controlling stake in major insurance company Phoenix Holdings Ltd from Delek Group.
• Represented GIC on its financing of CD&R's acquisition of Epicor in the United States.
• Represented Anchorage Capital Group LLC, GIC and Davidson Kempner on the sale of their interests in Eir, Ireland's principal fixed-line and mobile telecoms provider, to Toohil Telecom Holdings Limited for an enterprise value of EUR 3.5 billion.
• Represented John Laing Group on its acquisition of HICL Infrastructure PLC's entire equity interest in four UK public-private partnership projects and a 37.5% stake in the Hornsea II offshore transmission assets.
• Represented Goldman Sachs International and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on successive minority-stake investments in Modanisa Elektronik Mağazacılık ve Ticaret A.Ş., an e-commerce retailer of modern conservative clothing and accessories.
• Represented Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investments on its investment in OutSystems, a global leader in low-code application development.
• Represented Blackstone Credit on the disposal of a 15% stake in Morson Group, a UK-based specialist recruitment group, to Onex Corporation.
• Represented Blackstone Capital and Bybrook, the controlling shareholders of Advanz Pharma, on a formal sale process culminating in a public offer by Nordic Capital for an equity value of US$846 million.
• Represented Blackstone Credit on debt and equity financing supporting CapVest Partners LLP's acquisition of Datasite Global Corporation, including a unitranche facility later retranched into PIK and first lien syndicated financing.
• Represented Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP on the sale of Alcontrol Group Limited and the structuring and upstreaming of proceeds.
• Represented Blackstone Credit on alternative capital transactions, financings and restructurings, including matters involving Cobham plc and KP1.

Includes matters handled prior to joining the firm.

• Named an “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor, 2025