USA – CALIFORNIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Vijay Sekhon, Mehdi Khodadad, Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek and Payom Pirahesh Sidley Austin LLP
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Sidley Austin LLP is a global law firm with 2,300 lawyers in 21 offices situated in key commercial and financial hubs globally. The firm has represented cli - ents in more than 70 countries on complex transac - tional, investigation, regulatory and litigation matters. The firm’s lawyers and business professionals, flu - ent in more than 80 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape. Sidley
has an extensive private equity practice with lawyers around the world principally focused on advising its private equity clients. The firm’s private equity lawyers possess deep experience across the broad spectrum of private equity transactions, from multibillion-dollar leveraged buyouts (LBOs) to growth equity invest - ments in premium middle markets companies. The firm would like to thank Rudy Ramirez for his contri - bution to this chapter.
Authors
Vijay Sekhon is a private equity partner in Sidley’s San Francisco and Century City offices and an adjunct professor at Berkeley Law. His practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales, and reorganisations
Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek is a private equity partner at Sidley’s offices in Century City and New York. He
focuses his practice on private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions. Nicolai has significant experience representing private equity sponsors and other institutional investors in connection with mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, and leveraged and management buyouts involving public and private companies. In addition, he regularly advises target and acquiring companies (including the portfolio companies of private equity firms) on a broad range of M&A transactions.
of businesses for companies and private equity and hedge funds. Vijay also focuses on public debt and equity offerings, private placements, and purchases and sales of debt and equity, and general corporate and securities law, including advising companies and private equity and hedge funds on their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws. Vijay is recognised in Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2020–25).
Mehdi Khodadad serves as global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A and private equity group and is a member of Sidley’s Executive Committee. He represents leading technology and life sciences companies and their private
Payom Pirahesh focuses his practice on private equity funds, large asset managers and other sophisticated market participants. He has significant experience advising private equity funds and their portfolio
equity and other investment sponsors. Mehdi counsels corporate clients, entrepreneurs and investors on a wide variety of transactions, including private and public financings, corporate restructurings, M&A, leveraged buy-outs and related private equity transactions, cross-border and other structured corporate transactions. He is recognised by Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2021–25).
companies in acquisitions, divestitures and day-to- day legal matters. Payom is a trusted adviser to portfolio company C-suites, and guides portfolio companies through the negotiation and implementation of add-on acquisitions and private equity-style employment arrangements, management incentive plans and sale bonus plans. He additionally advises private equity funds on establishing limited partner co-investment
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