Associé

Vinita Sithapathy

Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Corporate & Securities

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Corporate and private equity clients turn to Vinita Sithapathy for representation on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. Vinita draws from over 10 years of experience to assist clients in a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and sales of companies and businesses, consortium transactions, joint ventures, private investments, management rollovers, and reorganizations.

Expérience

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.

A significant minority stockholder in the US public listing of ReNew Energy Global plc through an $8 billion de-SPAC transaction.
Saint-Gobain, in its $2.3 billion acquisition of GCP Applied Technologies.
Sonoco, in its $1.35 billion acquisition of Ball Metalpack and itts pending acquisition of Eviosys.
Western Union, in its $910 million carve-out sale of Western Union Business Solutions to Goldfinch Partners and Baupost.
Jungheinrich, in its $375 million acquisition of Storage Solutions, Inc.
A significant stockholder in the US public listing of Mirion Technologies through a de-SPAC transaction.
Paine Schwartz Partners, in its: acquisition of the Global ID group, arrangements with rollover investors, and subsequent add-on acquisitions; acquisition of Wawona Packing, subsequent add-on acquisitions, including that of Gerawan Farming to create a $1 billion combined business, and arrangements with co-investors and rollover investors; merger of its portfolio company, Eurodrip, with Rivulis Irrigation.
London Stock Exchange Group, in its: $700 million acquisition of Citigroup’s fixed income index and analytics business; $1.15 billion sale of Frank Russell Company’s asset management business to TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners.
The co-founder and CEO of RealD, in its $551 million acquisition by Rizvi Traverse.
Underwriters and arrangers in equity and debt offerings by the Indian Hotels Company, Specialty Restaurants, Tata Motors and the Oberoi group of hotels.

Compétences et Secteurs liés

Domaines de compétences

Secteurs

Private Equity

Publications et Interventions

Actualités
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  MAYER BROWN CONTINUES TO EXPAND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE M&A CAPABILITIES WITH VINITA SITHAPATHY IN NEW YORK
  septembre 30 2024

Formation

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

Inscription au Barreau

New York

Engagement professionnel et communautaire

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