Gartan Tracey
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Gartan Tracey

Senior Associate

Email

gartan.tracey@aoshearman.com

Phone

+971 2 418 0425

Offices

Abu Dhabi

V-CARD
Gartan is a Senior Associate in the corporate team in our Abu Dhabi office.

He joins us from a leading international law firm in London, where he advised on numerous international and domestic private equity and strategic M&A transactions.

Gartan previously worked as the legal coordinator of an international oil services company based in Abu Dhabi. 

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • GTT Communications, Inc. on its sale of its infrastructure business to I Squared Capital for US$2.15 billion (previous firm experience). 
  • Telegraph Media Group Limited and its Independent Directors on the ongoing sale of The Telegraph Newspaper and May Corporation Limited and its Independent Directors on the sale of The Spectator Magazine (previous firm experience). 
  • LionRock Capital:
    o on its acquisition of a majority stake in Clarks, a UK-based, international shoe manufacturer and retailer (previous firm experience). 
    o on the acquisition of Haglöfs AB from ASICS Corporation (previous firm experience). 
  • Partners Group and its portfolio company Emeria Group, on the acquisition of Chestertons UK, one of London’s largest and oldest estate agents (previous firm experience). 
  • OEG Renewables Group (a portfolio company of Oaktree) on the acquisition of Bluestream, an oil services company and several other bolt-on acquisitions (previous firm experience).
  • H.I.G. Capital on the acquisition by one of its affiliates of the entire issued share capital of Axis Europe, a leading UK provider of property maintenance services (previous firm experience).
  • Frazier Healthcare Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners, acting through their portfolio company CSafe Global, on the acquisition of Softbox Systems, an international provider of temperature control packaging to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Softbox supplies Pfizer with the ultra-low temperature controlled parcel shipper required in the distribution of its COVID-19 vaccines (previous firm experience).
  • ICONIQ Capital and management shareholders on the sale of CSL Dualcom to ECI Partners. CSL are market leaders in providing M2M and IoT connectivity solutions in the fire, security and telehealth sectors (previous firm experience).
  • G Square Healthcare Private Equity on the closing of its €500m continuation fund vehicle in connection with the acquisition of three existing assets from its existing vehicles, G Square Capital I and G Square Capital II (previous firm experience).
     

Qualifications

Admissions

England & Wales, 2014

Academic

BA (Hons), Law, University of Oxford, 2012 

LPC, Kaplan Law School London, 2014

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.