Javaad Ali, Esq.
Corporate M&A, Capital Markets
Experience
- Formerly of Kirkland & Ellis, Debevoise & Plimpton, and Dentons — corporate and securities matters for public and private issuers.
Representative Transactions
- Advised Amcor Ltd. in its $6.8 billion acquisition of Bemis Co.
- Advised Akzo Nobel in connection with the $12.5 billion sale of its specialty chemicals unit to The Carlyle Group.
- Advised Starwood Waypoint Homes in connection with its terminated $10.2 billion acquisition of a real estate investment trust.
- Advised Fortive Corporation in connection with its $2.0 billion acquisition of Accruent.
- Advised Francisco Partners in connection with a strategic minority investment by Blackstone and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
- Advised Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a minority interest in New Mountain Capital.
- Advised a Blackstone portfolio company in its $500 million notes offering and $180 million add-on senior notes offering.
- Advised Wyndham Worldwide in connection with its $1.95 billion acquisition of La Quinta’s franchise and management business and its issuance of $500 million of senior notes.
- Advised OneSpaWorld in connection with its $948 million business combination with Haymaker Acquisition Corporation, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
- Advised BlackRock in connection with a $471 million agreement to purchase Rule 144A notes issued by special purpose entities.
- Advised a major financial institution in the $5.2 billion restructuring of complex financing facilities with a single counterparty.
- Advised Apollo, J.P. Morgan, Citi, Neuberger Berman, Nomura, Credit Suisse, and others in connection with several billion dollars of purchases and sales of securities and loan products.
- Advised a major European financial institution on derivatives arrangements — credit products, interest-rate and foreign-exchange swaps, and other hedging instruments — including LIBOR benchmark-replacement matters.
- Additional representative matters available on request.
Education
- J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
- M.S., Quantitative Finance — HEC Paris
- B.A., Economics, with honors — Northwestern University
Admission
- New York, 2020 — Registration No. 5734744 (verify)
Contact
Engagements by referral and prior arrangement.