Meet Bowmans’ Lawyers Advising Diageo in its USD 2.3 Billion Sale of EABL to Japan’s Asahi Group A USD 2.3bn deal doesn’t execute itself. As Diageo sells its 65% stake in EABL to Japan’s Asahi Group, we go behind the scenes to spotlight the Bowmans' lawyers advising on East Africa’s largest public M&A transaction.

When mega-deals happen, the most visible winners are usually the shareholders who are selling. But in transactions of this scale, there is always a second, less visible layer of immediate beneficiaries: the financial advisers, lawyers and bankers whose expertise transforms headline numbers into a legally executable reality. That reality is now playing out in the USD 2.3 billion acquisition of a 65 percent controlling stake in East African Breweries Plc (EABL) by Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings from Diageo Plc, a transaction that has been confirmed as the largest public mergers and acquisitions deal in East Africa and one of the…