Vinita Sithapathy

Represented

• Google, in its: $5.4 billion acquisition of Mandiant, Inc. and related transactions with Blackstone and other private equity sponsors; $4.5 billion transaction with Jio Platforms, including investment and governance arrangements, and commercial; and agreements to develop an affordable smartphone with an optimized operating system.
• Japan Tobacco, in its: acquisition of the Vector Group Ltd.; joint venture with the Altria Group to market and commercialize heated tobacco-stick products in the United States; $5 billion acquisition of the non-US operations of Natural American Spirit from Reynolds American; acquisition of Logic Technology, a leading US e-cigarette brand.
• Cargill, in its joint venture with Continental Grain, in connection with the $4.3 billion acquisition of Sanderson Farms and Wayne Farms.
• Novartis, in its: $5.4 billion sale of its animal health business to Eli Lilly; acquisitions of DTx Pharma and another preclinical-stage biotechnology company; tender offer to public shareholders of its Indian-listed subsidiary.
• Kite Pharma, in its acquisition of Tmunity Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company.
• Basilea, in its acquisition of rights to a preclinical antifungal compound from Pfizer.
• A sovereign wealth fund, in its consortium with private equity sponsors to acquire 50% of a $4.1 billion infrastructure company.

• Columbia Law School, LLM
  Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
• University of Mumbai, BLS, LLB

• New York

• Co-creator and co-lecturer, Cross-Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process, Harvard Law School and Hebrew University, 2018-2019