USA – CALIFORNIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Mehdi Khodadad, Dan Clivner, Vijay Sekhon and Matthew Thompson Sidley Austin LLP
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Sidley Austin LLP is an elite global law firm. With ap - proximately 2,300 lawyers and 160 years of experi - ence, it has established a reputation for innovative legal strategies to achieve powerful results for its clients in complex transactional, restructuring, crisis management, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters. The firm’s perspective and reach are truly global, supported by 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial, regulatory, and financial centres across the world. Its lawyers and business profes - sionals, fluent in more than 75 languages, possess
the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acu - men needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape. Sidley has a preeminent global M&A practice that is engaged in the full spectrum of pub - lic and private M&A and private equity transactions across a variety of industries. Its clients include large and small companies, private equity funds and other financial sponsors, boards of directors, special com - mittees, financial advisors, and other participants in corporate transactions.
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Mehdi Khodadad serves as global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A and private equity group and is a member of Sidley’s management committee and executive committee. His practice focuses on representing leading
Dan Clivner is a member of Sidley’s executive committee and the managing partner of the greater Los Angeles offices. He previously served
as a global co-leader of the firm’s M&A and private equity group. Dan handles high-profile transactional matters for clients in the media and entertainment, telecoms, technology, financial services, and retail industries. He has extensive experience advising both domestic and international private equity and corporate clients on a variety of matters related to M&A, corporate governance, and securities law matters such as leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, public company acquisitions, and restructurings. Dan also advises boards, management, special committees, and investment banking firms on domestic and international corporate transactions. Dan is recognised in Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2025).
technology and life sciences companies and their private equity and other investment sponsors. He counsels corporate clients, entrepreneurs, and investors on a wide variety of transactions, including private and public financings, corporate restructurings, M&A, leveraged buyouts and related private equity transactions, cross-border, and other structured corporate transactions. Mehdi also regularly advises the boards of directors, management, and special committees of corporate clients and their investors on a wide variety of securities law and corporate governance matters. He is recognised in Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2021–25).
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