Karim is a transactional and corporate advisory lawyer specialising in private M&A, private equity, joint ventures, capital raisings (including secondary equity and debt capital raisings) and other corporate transactions.
Karim has deep experience advising clients on cross-border matters across a wide range of industries, having spent over 10 years based across Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. His working languages include English and Chinese Mandarin, and he speaks Japanese, Chinese Cantonese and French at an intermediate level.
Karim’s work highlights include:
- Australian M&A: Quadrant Private Equity on its sale of the Journey Beyond experiential travel business; EMR Capital on its upstream consortium arrangements with Golden Energy and Resources in respect of their joint acquisition of the Ravenswood gold mine
- Capital raisings: convertible notes listed on the SGX for Flight Centre, AMA Group and New Hope Corporation and secondary capital raisings for Flight Centre and AMA Group
- Australia-based cross border transactions: Brambles Limited on the merger of its Chinese pallets business with Loscam; Probuild response to unsolicited offer from Chinese SOE
- China-based cross border transactions*: Tencent on its investments in Pinduoduo and Wattpad, Didi Chuxing on its investment in Grab, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Goldman Sachs on various investments in China domestic businesses
*Represent transactions occurring before Karim re-joined KWM.
