Gaia Pattyn

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Gaia Pattyn is an associate in the Firm's global M&A and corporate practice in London.

Gaia advises on M&A, joint ventures, venture capital, funding rounds and general corporate matters, having considerable experience in complex cross-border transactions and advising technology focused clients.

Prior to joining White & Case, Gaia was a Senior Associate at a Magic Circle law firm.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, Solicitor
Brussels Bar
Education
Master of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Master's Degree in Law
Catholic University of Leuven
Bachelor of Laws
Catholic University of Leuven
Languages
English
Dutch
French
German

Experience

A selection of Gaia's experience includes advising:

Fifth Wall on its investment in Woltair, a Czech Republic-based technology-driven heat and power source service provider.

CapitalG and Google Ventures as lead investors in Monzo's Series I funding round.*

MTN Group on the sale of business units in Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry to Telecel.*

Ciena Corp on its investment in and commercial partnership with Lumiphase AG, a Swiss-based optical communication chip developer.*

Cape Investment Partners on the sale of CAPE Holland, a Netherlands-based developer of offshore vibro-piling installation equipment, to Venterra Group plc.*

A sovereign wealth fund as lead investor in a funding round for a German-American data processing company.*

Macromill, Inc on the sale of MetrixLab to Toluna, a market research platform provider, and the related cross-investment in Toluna.*

PepsiCo on various European corporate venture capital investments.*

Razor Group on the acquisition of Valoreo and its related Series C funding round.*

Xior Student Housing on the acquisition of a student home portfolio from BaseCamp for EUR 939 million in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Poland, and related carve-out transactions.*

Etex on its acquisition of URSA, a glass mineral wool and extruded polystyrene producer, from Lone Star-backed Xella.*

Flint Group on the carve-out and sale of its XSYS division, which specialises in the development and supply of printing plates, sleeves and adapters and pre-press equipment, to a Lone Star affiliate.*

STMicroelectronics NV on the acquisition of BeSpoon SAS, a France-based semiconductor company, and the related strategic partnership for UWB positioning technology with TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG.*

LANXESS on the acquisition of Theseo, a France-based disinfection and hygiene solutions provider with further sites in Germany, the UK and Brazil, from the Avril group.*

RWE AG on the acquisition of Nordex SE's European onshore wind and solar development business, including a 2.7 GW project pipeline.*

Mars, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in Foodspring GmbH, a Germany-based provider of nutritional supplements, vitamins, snacks and drinks (now Mars Edge).*

*Experience prior to joining White & Case