EXPERIENCE

Sohail’s recent transactions include representing:

• Apollo Global Management and affiliated funds in numerous high-profile transactions, including in:
  
  • their ¥311 billion investment (approximately $2.05 billion) to acquire a majority stake in Panasonic Automotive Systems Co.
  • the $6.25 billion acquisition of The Venetian Resort and Sands Expo and Convention Center from Las Vegas Sands Corporation
  • the take-private acquisition of Atlas Air Worldwide, for an enterprise value of $5.2 billion
  • the $5.2 billion take-private acquisition of Arconic Corporation
  • the $7.5 billion acquisition of the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business of Lumen Technologies in 20 U.S. states to create Brightspeed, the nation's fifth largest ILEC
  • the $2.4 billion sale of the safety business of Intrado, an Apollo portfolio company, to Stonepeak
  • the $4.5 billion sale of its portfolio company McGraw-Hill to Platinum Equity
  • the structuring and formation of various private equity and credit funds, including Hybrid Value, Accord and Defined Return
  • various corporate finance transactions and debt workouts / restructurings for Apollo portfolio companies, including Shutterfly, Coinstar and Invited (formerly ClubCorp)
• IBM in its:
  • $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio
  • acquisition of NS1
  • acquisition of Neudesic
  • sale of The Weather Company to Francisco Partners
  • $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, creating the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider
• AR Global in connection with the internalization of management as part of the merger agreement between Global Net Lease and The Necessity Retail REIT
• Berkshire Partners in its:
  • investment in Mielle Organics and subsequent sale of the company to P&G Beauty
  • acquisition of a majority stake in Harvey Performance Company from Summit Partners
• Nuance Communications:
  • in the spin-off of its Automotive software business to form Cerence
  • in its $19.7 billion sale to Microsoft
• Baker Hughes in the formation of its global offshore drilling joint venture with Akastor
• Advance in the $150 billion Reverse Morris Trust transaction that combined AT&T’s WarnerMedia business with Discovery
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its $15 billion acquisition (together with KKR) of CyrusOne
• An ad hoc group of lenders to Exide Technologies, in a credit bid asset sale of the company’s international operations in more than 80 countries as part of the company’s chapter 11 liquidation
• Several SPAC representations including:
  • Algoma Steel, Inc. in its combination with Legato Merger Corp.
  • D-Dave in its combination with DPCM Capital
  • SVF Investment Corp. 3 (a SoftBank SPAC) in its merger with Symbotic to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma equity value of $5.5 billion