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    Sahand Moarefy

    Special Counsel

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    Los Angeles

    +1-310-712-6693

    New York

    +1-212-558-4206

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    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.

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    Experience

    Experience

    Financial Services

    • Warburg Pincus in various transactions, including its minority investment in Edelman Financial Engines and add-on acquisition of Regency Finance Company by Mariner Finance, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company*
    • Capital One in various transactions, including the sale of its $900 million wealth management business to SageView and the sale of its high net worth investment management and trust business to Hancock Whitney*
    • Flexpoint Ford in various transactions, including Flexpoint Ford’s strategic investment in Public Trust Advisors*; the subsequent combination of Public Trust Advisors with PMA Companies, a portfolio company of TA Associates; and Flexpoint Ford’s acquisition of Lereta and associated co-investment with Vestar Capital*

    • Wells Fargo & Company in the $227 million sale of its Shareowner Services to Equiniti Group*
    • Sears Holdings Corporation in the extension and amendment of its credit card program with Citibank in exchange for a $425 million payment from Citibank*
    • Sandler O’Neill in its $485 million merger with Piper Jaffray to create Piper Sandler Companies*
    • Sun Bancorp in its $487 million acquisition by OceanFirst Financial*
    • IEQ Capital in its minority growth investment from Stone Point*
    • Upbound Group in its $460 million acquisition of Brigit

    Technology, Media, Entertainment

    • II-VI in its $7.0 billion acquisition of Coherent after the public announcement of a merger agreement between Coherent and Lumentum, followed by a three-way bidding war including Lumentum and MKS Instruments*
    • Acima Holdings in its $1.7 billion acquisition by Rent-A-Center*
    • IAC/InterActiveCorp in the separation of Match Group from its remaining businesses*
    • XO Group in its $933 million merger with WeddingWire*
    • Didi Chuxing in its acquisition of 99 Taxis*
    • ANGI Homeservices in its $500 million senior notes offering and related restructuring transactions*
    • Flutter Entertainment in its $4.2 billion acquisition of Fastball Holdings’ minority stake in FanDuel*
    • Freedom Acquisition I. Corp. in its business combination transaction with Complete Solaria*
    • SoFi Technologies in its $1.1 billion convertible senior notes offering and related capped call transaction*
    • Little Room Films in its sale to The North Road Company*

    Healthcare & Life Sciences

    • Immunomedics in its $21 billion acquisition by Gilead*
    • Envision Healthcare in its $9.9 billion sale to KKR*
    • Mallinckrodt in various transactions, including its $5.3 billion debt restructuring and resolution of opioid-related claims and Acthar Gel litigation through a voluntary Chapter 11 process, its exchange offers and consent solicitations with various noteholders, and its proposed spin-off of its specialty generics business*
    • Digital Transformation Opportunities Corp. in its business combination transaction with AON Oncology*

    Telecommunications, Infrastructure

    • CenturyLink in its $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications, including its divestitures of certain assets in connection with the acquisition of Level 3 Communications*
    • WOW! in various divestiture transactions, including the $1.125 billion sale of its Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio service areas to Atlantic Broadband and the $661 million sale of its Chicago, Illinois, Evansville, Indiana and Anne Arundel, Maryland service areas to Astound Broadband*
    • Kansas City Southern in its initially announced $29 billion sale to Canadian Pacific Railway, followed by Kansas City Southern’s subsequent response to competing acquisition proposals from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway, culminating in a revised agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway to acquire Kansas City Southern for $31 billion*
    • CoreSite in its $10.1 billion acquisition by American Tower*

    Other

    • ServiceMaster Global Holdings in its $1.553 billion sale of its ServiceMaster Brands businesses to Roark Capital*
    • Terminix in its $6.7 billion acquisition by Rentokil*
    • Sisecam Resources LP in its take-private acquisition by Sisecam Chemicals Wyoming
    • Ventas in the restructuring of its master lease with Brookdale Senior Living*
    • Rockwell Automation in its successful defense and response to a $29 billion unsolicited takeover bid by Emerson Electric*
    • ASGN Incorporated in its $340 million acquisition of TopBloc

    * Denotes representations undertaken prior to joining S&C

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    News

    News

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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2016
    • Harvard University, A.B., 2010

    Bar Admissions

    • California
    • New York
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