Sahand Moarefy is a special counsel based in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Los Angeles office and is a member of the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Capital Markets Groups.
Sahand focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense, and corporate governance matters. Sahand has extensive experience representing public and private buyers and sellers in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers, both negotiated and contested. He has represented public and private companies in connection with proxy contests, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and other complex corporate transactions.
Sahand has also advised private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a range of transactions. Sahand has worked on transactions in various industries, including financial services, technology, media, entertainment, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, gaming, real estate and transportation.
Sahand writes extensively on law and public policy issues for a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Lawfare, The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and The Diplomat. Most recently, Sahand is the author of The New Power Brokers: The Rise of Asset Manager Capitalism and the New Economic Order (Palgrave Macmillan; September 2024), which analyzes the rise of institutional investors in public equity markets over the last seventy years.