Saya Sharma

Saya Sharma is an associate in Goodwin’s Business Law department and member of its Private Equity group. Saya advises on a broad range of corporate matters, with a focus on private equity and private M&A transactions. Her experience includes advising private equity sponsors on mid-market buy-outs and investments, structured equity investments, distressed investments, management incentive plans and advising on private M&A acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.

Saya joined Goodwin in 2021.

Saya has worked on a range of matters including advising:

• TA Associates together with Warburg Pincus on their investment in Epassi, a leading digital payments provider for employee benefits
• H.I.G. Capital on its acquisition of CLC Group, a leading UK provider of property and asset refurbishment
• FNZ, a global wealth management fintech backed by Private Equity investors on its agreement to acquire IFSAM, a Luxembourg-based business-to-business fund platform 
• Wavecrest on its investment in HICX, a supplier experience management provider
• HqO
  • on its acquisition of Leesman Limited, a world leader in measuring and analysing the experiences of employees in their places of work
  • on the end-to-end tenant experience platform for commercial real estate properties, on its acquisition of Office App, a leading European tenant and employee engagement platform 
• Queen’s Park Equity
  • on its investment in TelcoSwitch, a leading communications software provider to the UK SME market
  • on the acquisition of Sagacity Solutions Ltd, a London-based IT consultancy company
  • on its acquisition of Learndirect Limited, a provider of online learning courses*
• York Capital Management
  • and its portfolio company Cennox on their acquisition of iTech, a leading Irish transport provider providing specialised services associated with moving and locating high technology equipment
  • and its portfolio company Cennox on their acquisition of Lincsafe, a cash automation equipment and solutions business
• Raptor Technologies, a portfolio company of our client JMI Equity, on its acquisition of Oaktree Topco Limited, is a leading software solution for monitoring safeguarding, wellbeing and a range of child welfare issues
• Shareholders of Receipt Bank / Dext on its majority sale to Hg Capital
• Rare Whisky Holdings, a whisky investment group based in Hong, on its acquisition of a 49% stake in Whisky Hammer, provider of a whisky auction service
• A growth equity fund on its multi-million dollar investment in a European cloud-based telephony business as part of a late-stage financing round
• CSL Group Limited on its acquisition of Guidesmiths Limited, a software development and digital transformation specialist
•  Lloyds Development Capital on a minority investment in Horse Health Wessex Ltd which owns a leading equestrian brand LeMieux 
• A US based PE fund, on its multi-million dollar investment in a business which provides automatic teller machine (ATM) and retail support services
• Dotmatics Limited and its shareholders on the sale of Dotmatics to Insightful Science, LLC for total upfront consideration of c. £530 million. Dotmatics is a developer of an informatics platform that facilitates scientific data access
• TowerBrook Capital Partners
  • on its impact investment in Envevo, a provider of EV design and installation engineering services
  • on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group, the owner of the ASK Italian, Zizzi and Coco di Mama brands, along with the Pod Food Limited fast food delivery service*
  • on the investment in the GBA Group, a UK-based vehicle logistics business servicing the global automotive and shipping industries*
• GHO Capital Partners on the acquisition of Ardena, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization providing early-stage drug development and manufacturing for small to mid-sized biopharma companies*
• Five Arrows Principal Investments on the sale of and co-investment in Datix, a patient safety and risk management software company*
• Global Loan Agency Services Limited
  • on the restructuring of Galapagos Holding S.A.*
  • on the restructuring of BARTEC, a German manufacturer of explosion safety equipment*
  • on the sale of Young’s Seafood Limited, one of the UK’s leading producers and distributors of seafood, to Karro Food Group*
• eBay Inc. on the acquisition of Motors.co.uk from Cox Automotive Relation Solutions*
• WEX Inc., a leading financial technology service provider, in connection with its acquisition of EG Group Limited’s GO Fuel Card Business*
• Sun Capital Partners on the acquisition of ESIM Chemicals GmbH*
• Origami Capital on its establishment and structuring of a joint venture real estate development investment platform in Germany*
• A leading sovereign wealth fund in its joint venture with JC Flowers, relating to the management of a leading Puerto-Rican based private investment firm dedicated to investing globally in the financial services industry*
• D3O Limited in its multi-million dollar funding round led by Beringea and Entrepreneurs Fund*
• AEW Asia in its acquisition of retail property in Singapore from CapitaLand*
• A global real estate investor on a strategic real estate investment in Shanghai*
• CPPIB in its Korean logistics joint venture with a Dutch pension fund*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.