Profile
Sofiya Bumagin is a Shareholder in the London Energy Practice, advising private equity and other private capital providers on infrastructure and private equity M&A transactions. She has significant experience across all infrastructure verticals, spanning investments in energy assets (including battery storage and district heating), digital infrastructure (including towers, data centers, and fibre), transport, and core plus infrastructure, as well as transactions involving voluntary carbon markets.
Sofiya has also advised on ESG matters and previously undertaken a one-year secondment to a leading private equity infrastructure fund, as well as worked in-house as a legal director at a global investment group, where she supported the infrastructure investment team.
Concentrations
- Energy
- Corporate
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Infrastructure
- Digital Infrastructure
- Project Finance
- Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
Capabilities
Experience
- Representing a private equity fund on the attempted acquisition of a maritime transport business.°
- Representing a private equity fund on the acquisition of an environmental services business.°
- Representing a private equity fund on the acquisition of cold storage businesses across Europe as part of the build out of a cold storage platform. °
- Representing a private equity fund on the attempted acquisition of a flexible generation power station. °
- Representing a private equity fund on the acquisition of a container terminals business.°
- Representing a private equity fund on the sale of a stake in a telecom towers lease aggregation business. °
- Advising a state-owned investment company on their investment in a battery storage operator in the UK.°
- Advising an infrastructure fund on an acquisition of a set of European data centers by way of a carve-out from the seller’s existing business.°
- Acting for a number of investors on their financings and offtake agreements involving voluntary carbon credits.°
- Advising a consortium of infrastructure investors on the c. GBP 4 billion takeover of a London-listed aviation business.°
- Acting for a private equity investor on their acquisition of a stake in a UK fiber-to-the-premises business.°
- Acting for a number of corporates on the carve-outs of their telecoms towers businesses.°
- Acting for a private equity investor on their buy-out of a French care homes business.°
- Acting for a private equity investor on a number of buy-outs of businesses in the U.S. with complex carve-out features.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Bumagin prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Credentials
- LL.B., London School of Economics & Political Science
- England and Wales
- Russian