Michiel Visser

About Michiel Visser

Corporate/M&A partner with a focus on cross-border work for sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, private equity funds and corporations.Recent experience includes advising:• Qatar Holding LLC on its investment in Fanatics Holdings, Inc. as part of Fanatics’ US$1.5 billion funding round.• Certares, the US private equity fund, on a number of transactions in the tourism and hospitality sectors including its acquisition of an equity stake in Nirvana.• A financial investor in its participation in the acquisition of a majority interest in Medline Industries, Inc. by a consortium including Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman.• United Arab Chemical Carriers on its sale to United Overseas Group, the first reverse triangular merger structured under DIFC law, awarded “Middle East M&A Deal of the Year 2021” by International Financial Law Review. • Ooredoo Group on the US$6 billion merger of its Indonesian subsidiary Indosat Ooredoo with the Indonesian subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.• Novasep on the sale of its chromatography process equipment division to the Sartorius Group.• A co-investor in a consortium led by Tencent Holdings Ltd. on the acquisition of a 20% stake in Universal Music Group from Vivendi for EUR 6 billion.• Antin Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm, on its acquisition of the US district energy business from Veolia, for US$1.25 billion.• Qatar Holding on its acquisition of a significant equity stake in Oryx Midstream Services from an affiliate of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners.• Qatar Petroleum on the integration of its subsidiaries QatarGas and RasGas, a merger which created the largest LNG company in the world.• UASC, a global container shipping business, and its majority shareholders Qatar Holding and Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) on its US$12.5 billion merger with German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, an award-winning transaction with many innovative features.• IFC on its subscription for 23% of the shares of UNIT Investment NV, a developer of power plants across Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Middle East in a transaction which raised US$365 million for Unit.• Katara Hospitality on the acquisition of the Carlton Cannes, Amstel Hot Amsterdam, InterContinental Madrid, and InterContinental Frankfurt.• Labregah on its US$2.1 billion acquisition of Barwa City Company and the US$2.5 billion acquisition of 95% of Barwa Commercial Avenue Company.• Royal Ahold on its $7.1 billion sale of U.S. Foodservice to KKR and Clayton Dubilier Rice.

Experience

1. Partner

   Sidley Austin LLP

   Jan 2022 — Present · NY, US

Education

• Harvard Law School

  LLM, Corporate Law

  2004

• University of Oxford

  MJur, MPhil, Law

  1999 — 2002

• Leiden University

  LL.B., Civil Law

  1995 — 1999

• Leiden University

  Master of Arts - MA, History

  1995 — 2000