Bio

Divesh Patel is a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and foreign investment. He also regularly advises on cross-border transactions, equity capital markets, joint ventures, commercial transactions, distressed sale transactions and restructurings. Divesh advises a wide variety of domestic and cross-border clients, including private equity sponsors, across a broad range of sectors including manufacturing, retail, FMCG, financial services, infrastructure, aviation and transport, media, technology and telecommunications. He has recently acted for Archer Capital, Brookfield, Five V Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Lineage, L Catterton, Potentia Capital and Swissport. Divesh is qualified in both Australia and South Africa.