Salway, Karima

Karima Salway

Associate

karima.salway@lw.com
    Salway, Karima

    Karima Salway

    Associate

    karima.salway@lw.com

    Profile

    Karima Salway advises clients on all aspects of complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions with a UK nexus.

    Karima leverages her sophisticated understanding on global markets and extensive transactional experience to guide strategic corporates and banks on:

    • Sell-side and buy-side M&A
    • Public and private M&A
    • Joint ventures
    • Reorganizations
    • General corporate matters

    She unlocks Latham’s global platform to connect clients with the resources they need to mitigate risk and maximize deal outcomes. Karima approaches each transaction with pragmatism and delivers pragmatic, client-centric advice.

    Karima was seconded to Morgan Stanley, where she worked with the UK investment banking division on a range of corporate transactions and corporate advisory matters.

    A recognized leader at the firm, Karima has served on Latham’s global Recruiting Committee.

    She maintains an active pro bono practice, including work for Parents 1st, a nonprofit program for parents across England.

    Experience

    Karima’s experience includes advising:

    Sell-Side M&A

    • Delivery Associates on its sale to Trill Impact
    • Duke Street, Wagamama management, and certain other shareholders on The Restaurant Group’s acquisition of the Wagamama group
    • The sellers on the disposal by way of auction of the Method and Ecover global consumer products businesses to US private company SC Johnson

    Cross-Border M&A

    • Bandwidth on acquiring Voxbone
    • The founders of Dubizzle on selling their shareholdings in Dubizzle, the largest online classifieds platform in the Middle East
    • Theramex, a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to women’s healthcare, on CVC Capital Partners’ US$703 million acquisition of women’s healthcare assets from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
    • Coesia on acquiring the Instrumentation & Tobacco Machinery business of Molins, a manufacturer of secondary tobacco processing machinery
    • The Momondo Group in connection with its acquisition by the Priceline Group
    • Sienna Biopharmaceuticals on acquiring Creabilis, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company
    • Chinese-listed Hytera Communications on acquiring London Stock Exchange listed digital radio products manufacturer Sepura Group by way of a Takeover Code scheme of arrangement
    • Carbylan Therapeutics, a developer of clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical treatments, on its reverse merger with KalVista Pharmaceuticals
    • The Michelin Group on acquiring BookaTable, the online restaurant booking provider*
    • The founders of Lansdowne Chemicals on selling a chemical manufacturing and distribution company to Overlack AG*

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • England and Wales (Solicitor)

    Education

    • LPC, College of Law, London
    • GDL, BPP Law School, London
    • MSc in Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh
    • MA in International Relations & Global Studies & Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews

    Practices

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