Dr. Roger Gaspard
Biography
Overview
Dr. Gaspard is a local partner in our Corporate and M&A practice. He has considerable experience advising corporations and financial institutions on a variety of transactions.
Dr. Gaspard has practiced in an international law firm for more than four years and in that time has worked on mandates across the globe. Prior to joining White & Case, Dr. Gaspard worked for an international law firm in New York and Paris.
Experience
Representative transactions include advising:
Lulu Retail Holdings PLC on its pre-IPO reorganisation and successful intention to float on the ADX via a sale of 25% of its issued shares by its sole shareholder, Lulu International Holdings Limited.
EFG Hermes, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, SNBC, Al Rajhi Capital, HSBC, GIB Capital and Saudi Fransi Capital in their roles as joint financial advisors, joint bookrunners, underwriters and lead manager on the IPO of ADES Holding on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), the largest IPO in Saudi Arabia for 2023 at the time of listing.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on its SAR 96.0 billion/US$25.6 billion IPO—the world's largest IPO to date.
Agthia, a listed UAE food and beverage group, in connection with acquisitions of multiple food and beverage businesses in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Alkhabeer Capital on its acquisition of Capital Schools in Dubai.
CI Capital Holding for Financial Investments, Egypt’s leading diversified financial services and investment group, on the indirect acquisition with a group of co-investors of a 60 percent interest in Taaleem Management Services Company SAE, a leading higher education platform in Egypt which controls and operates Nahda University in Beni Suef for a total consideration of EGP 1.2 billion (circa GBP 60 million).
The shareholders of Ma'arif Holding Company for Education and Training (the largest owner and operator of private schools in Saudi Arabia) in relation to the sale of 100% of their shareholding to GEMS Education and Hassana Investment Company.
CI Capital Holding S.A.E, one of Egypt's leading financial services groups, in relation to its purchase of the majority of shares of Sphinx B.V., a Dutch Holdco holding indirectly Al Nahda University in Egypt, from Thebes Educational Management Holding B.V., another Dutch Holdco controlled by Abraaj.
International Holding Company, an ADX listed company, on its business merger with PAL Cooling.
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings, Inc., a Japanese insurance holding company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in the acquisition of shares of SCOR, a French reinsurance company.*
EDF Invest in its investment alongside KKR infrastructure in the Dutch car-park operator Q-Park NV.*
Alcatel-Lucent in connection with the public exchange offer initiated by Nokia Corporation to exchange all outstanding ordinary shares, American depositary shares and convertible bonds of Alcatel-Lucent for Nokia shares or Nokia American depositary shares.*
A syndicate of managers, led by BNP Paribas, HSBC Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Securities plc and Société Générale as joint global coordinators, along with 12 other co-managers, in a rights offering for Electricité de France (EDF).*
Elis in its initial public offering on the regulated market of Euronext in Paris.*
BNP Paribas, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation as lenders in connection with the 15 year bank term loan facility of $863 million of Abu Dhabi based Dolphin Energy Limited, the owner and operator of the Dolphin pipeline project.*
American Casino & Entertainment Properties LLC (ACEP), a casino and hotel owner and operator that owns the Stratosphere property in Las Vegas and other properties in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada, in a repricing of its first lien term loans.*
AT&T in the acquisition of DIRECTV in a stock-and-cash transaction.*
* Experience prior to joining White & Case
