Ramy Wahbeh

RAMY WAHBEH serves as co-leader of the firm’s global Private Equity practice, head of the London Corporate group, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. His practice focuses on representing leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of complex cross-border M&A transactions, strategic joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, recapitalizations, and hybrid/structured instrument investments.

Ramy has over 20 years’ experience advising on a wide range of cross-border M&A transactions and strategic joint ventures across Europe, including in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain, and more. He has advised on transactions in the airline, banking, finance, gaming, hospitality, insurance, leasing, mortgage, payment services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, professional services, retail, shipping, software, and other industries.

Ramy has received acknowledgement from numerous industry ranking guides:

• Chambers UK 2025 - 2026 – Ranked for Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above, where sources note (2026) “Ramy has very strong legal knowledge and a lot of experience. He is someone who is very personable, which I think is quite rare. It does not feel like a transactional relationship. ” In 2025, Ramy was ranked for UK-wide Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above, where sources note “Ramy is amazing in terms of client service and dedication. He really helps us with the execution of deals,” “he is exceptionally good,” and that “Ramy is excellent. He understands our risk tolerance and provides a level of service and knowledge that no one can replicate for us.”
• Legal 500 UK 2025 - 2026 – Recognized as a “Leading Partner” for Private Equity: Transactions – High-Value Deals (£500m+). In 2025, Ramy was ranked as a “Leading Partner” for Private Equity: Transactions – High-Value Deals (£500m+), and “Recommended” for Infrastructure: M&A and Acquisition Financing. 

Prior to joining Sidley in 2023, Ramy was a partner in the corporate department of another international law firm.

Recent examples of Ramy’s work include advising:

• Apollo Funds in their strategic minority equity investment in Charles Monat Associates.
• Juventus Football Club S.p.A. on the successful private placement of its €150 million bond issuance.
• Apollo-managed funds in their acquisition of a majority stake in Kelvion, a leading global provider of energy-efficient heat exchange and cooling solutions, from funds advised by Triton Partners.
• Athora Holding Ltd. in its approximately £5.7 billion acquisition of Pension Insurance Corporation Group Limited (pending).
• Ariston Group, a global leader in sustainable climate and water comfort, in its joint venture with Lennox.
• A leading U.S. private equity investment fund with respect to its investment into a UK-based global FinTech company.
• Apollo and certain other shareholders on the sale of the share capital of German bank Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) to TARGO Deutschland GmbH, a subsidiary of leading French cooperative bank Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale. 
• Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. in:
  
  • their acquisition of the Netherlands-based equipment leasing specialist Beequip B.V. from NIBC.
  • the acquisition of The Travel Corporation.
  • their minority equity investment in AUTODOC SE.
  • its strategic and financial partnership with Sofinnova Partners.
  • the takeover bid for 100% of the shares of Applus Services, holding company of the Applus industrial testing group, for approximately €1.38 billion.
  • the sale of Summit Leasing Slovenia, a leasing company in Slovenia and Croatia.
  • the acquisition of United Living Group.
  • the acquisition of Fiskeby International Holding AB, alongside its portfolio company, Reno De Medici S.p.A.
  • the acquisition of the Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS) business line (also known as Ingenico) from Worldline.
  • the investment in Primafrio.
  • the sale of Amissima Vita S.p.A. to Athora Holding Ltd.
  • the sale of Nova KBM d.d. to OTP Bank.
  • the acquisition of a majority stake in AS Graanul Invest.
  • the acquisition of a majority stake in and subsequent take-private of Reno De Medici S.p.A.
  • the €500 million investment in Sazka Group A.S.
  • the sale of Amissima Assicurazioni to HDI Assicurazioni.
  • the acquisition of Covis Pharma B.V. from funds managed by Cerberus Capital Management.
  • the two-step acquisition of Gamenet Group S.p.A. through a share acquisition from TCP Lux Eurinvest S.à r.l. and Intralot Italian Investments B.V. followed by a mandatory takeover for the remaining shares.
  • the €600 million sale of Seguradoras Unidas and AdvanceCare PORTUGAL to Generali.
  • the acquisition of a majority stake in Haydock Finance.
  • the partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in connection with the €250 million acquisition of Nova KBM d.d.

• Lottomatica Group S.p.A (formerly known as Gamenet Group S.p.A.), a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in its:
  •  €950 million acquisition of the Italian business of International Game Technology PLC consisting of 100% of the share capital of Lottomatica Scommesse S.r.l. and Lottomatica Videolot Rete S.p.A.
  • €639 million acquisition of SKS365.
• Oldenburgische Landesbank AG (formerly known as Bremer Kreditbank AG) (BKB), a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in its:
  • €300 million acquisition of Oldenburgische Landesbank AG.
  • acquisition of 100% of the share capital in Bankhaus Neelmeyer from UniCredit Bank AG.
• Catalina Holdings, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in its acquisition of Asia Capital Reinsurance Group.
• Nova KBM d.d., a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in its:
  • €444 million acquisition of Abanka d.d.
  • acquisition of 100% of the share capital in Summit Leasing Slovenija d.o.o. from Sumitomo Corporation.
  • acquisition of KBS d.d., the former Slovenian subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International, and the subsequent merger between NKBM and KBS.
• Seguradoras Unidas, S.A. (formerly known as Companhia de Seguros Tranquilidade, S.A.) in connection with the acquisition of Açoreana Seguros, S.A. (Açoreana), an affiliate of the Banif Financial Group, from Soil – SGPS, S.A. and Oitante, S.A., and the subsequent merger of Açoreana into Tranquilidade.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.