EXPERIENCE

Sohail’s recent M&A experience includes advising:

• Apollo Global Management and affiliated funds in numerous high-profile transactions, including:
  • along with its portfolio company McGraw Hill in the $4.5 billion sale of the company to Platinum Equity
  • in the $6.25 billion acquisition of The Venetian Resort and Sands Expo and Convention Center from Las Vegas Sands Corporation
  • in their $7.5 billion acquisition of the incumbent local exchange carrier business of Lumen Technologies
  • in the acquisition financing in connection with its $6 billion acquisition of Tech Data
  • in their commitment to invest up to $470 million in U.S. Acute Care Solutions (USACS), a national leader in physician-owned emergency medicine, hospitalist and observation services
  • the sale of Endemol Shine Group, which was co-owned by The Walt Disney Company and funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, to France-based Banijay Group
  • the acquisition of internet photo products pioneers Shutterfly, Inc., Snapfish, LLC, with the Shutterfly transaction valued at $2.7 billion and Shutterfly in its $225 million acquisition of Spoonflower, a global marketplace offering custom, print-on-demand fabric, wallpaper and home decor designed by global independent artists
• Baker Hughes in its joint venture with Akastor ASA to form a joint venture company that will combine Baker Hughes’ Subsea Drilling Systems (SDS) business with Akastor’s wholly owned subsidiary, MHWirth AS
• Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Harvey Performance Company from Summit Partners
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its $15 billion acquisition (together with KKR) of CyrusOne
• International Business Machines Corp. in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Inc., creating the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider
• Nuance Communications in the announced spin-off of its automotive software business

Sohail’s fund formation and investment management experience includes advising:

• Apollo Global Management and affiliated funds in numerous high-profile transactions, including in the formation of:
  • Apollo Accord strategy, a series of dislocation credit funds totaling over $5 billion
  • Apollo Hybrid Value Fund II, a credit and equity fund totaling $4.6 billion

Sohail’s SPAC experience includes advising:

• Algoma Steel, Inc. in its combination with Legato Merger Corp.
• Pine Technology Acquisition Corp. in its proposed merger with The Tomorrow Companies Inc. to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma equity value of $1.2 billion
• SVF Investment Corp. 3 in its merger with Symbotic LLC to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma equity value of $5.5 billion

Sohail’s restructuring experience includes advising:

• An ad hoc group of holders of securities issued by Exide Technologies, a manufacturer of automotive and industrial batteries, 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. The chapter 11 process also involved a mediated settlement of the company’s environmental obligations with dozens of federal, state and local environmental agencies