Biography
Arisa Manawapat is a Corporate associate in London who has advised, as part of a team, a number of leading private equity funds and major corporates on domestic and cross-border acquisitions and sales of companies and businesses. Arisa is dual-qualified as a U.S. lawyer and an English solicitor.
Prior to joining Weil, Arisa worked for international law firms in New York City and London.
Representative experience as part of a team includes:
- Brookfield Asset Management and Schoeller Allibert on the merger with IPL, creating an international sustainable packaging producer across Europe, the UK and North America with combined pro forma annual revenue of over US$1.4 billion
- Oaktree on the merger of its portfolio company Zzoomm with FullFibre
- Bain Capital in relation to the fully consensual and comprehensive recapitalization transaction undertaken by the Consolis Group
- PX3 Partners and its portfolio company Cleanova in the acquisition of Sidco Holdings LLC
- InfraBridge on the combination of its UK fibre business, operating as VX Fiber and LilaConnect, with Freedom Fibre Limited
- Lone Star on the €5.2bn sale of MBCC Group
- PX3 Partners on the acquisition of the Filtration Division of Celeros Flow Technology
- TowerBrook Capital Partners on its acquisition of Premium Credit*
- A multinational company on its $900mn investment in US consumer businesses*
- A US fund on the sale of its equity stake in a security business valued at $7bn*
- Financial advisors to a global network solutions group on its $14.3bn sale*
- A global mining company on its $496mn initial public offering*
- A US-based terminal operator on the sale of its stake in a joint venture*
- A number of US funds on their acquisitions of UK and European-based businesses*
- European funds on their acquisitions of US-based businesses*
*Matter handled prior to joining Weil.