Sanjana Rao

Sanjana’s experience includes advising: 

Public companies

• ChampionX Corporation in its US$7.8 billion sale to Schlumberger and US$300 million divestiture of US Synthetic Corporation to LongRange Capital*
• Bell Canada in its C$5.0 billion acquisition of Ziply Fiber*
• Sanofi SA in its US$2.9 billion acquisition of Provention Bio Inc.*
• DT Midstream in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of FERC-regulated natural gas transmission pipelines from ONEOK, Inc.*
• Willis Towers Watson PLC in its US$632 million sale of TRANZACT to GTCR and Recognize*

Private companies and private equity sponsors

• CPP Investments in its approximately US$1 billion investment in support of merger between Novolex (a portfolio company of Apollo) and Pactiv Evergreen*
• Goldman Sachs in its US$440 million strategic investment in BrightNight*
• AltC Acquisition Corp, a SPAC sponsored by AltC Sponsor LLC (an affiliate of M. Klein and Company, LLC) in its business combination with Oklo Inc.*
• Advent International in the sale of Certinia Inc. (formerly FinancialForce.com, Inc.)*
• Nexa Equity and its portfolio companies, including in the acquisition of Storewise*
• Autura in its merger with Traxero (a portfolio company of Radian Capital)*
• EQT Transition Infrastructure in its acquisition of Scale Microgrids*
• Snow Phipps Group (now TruArc Partners) and its portfolio companies, including in the acquisition of Trademark Cosmetics, Inc.*
• Trive Capital, together with Crux Capital Ltd, in their recapitalization of HTeaO*
• Ilegal Mezcal in its sale to Bacardi International Limited*
• Genstar Capital and its portfolio companies, including in the acquisition of NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.*
• Reservoir Capital Group in the sale of its majority stake in ClearCaptions, LLC*
• Stripes LLC in its purchase of a controlling stake in PopUpBagels, Inc.*

 Debtor representations

• ModivCare, Inc.
• Steward Health Care System, LLC*
• Midwest Fiber Holdings*
• Air Methods Corporation*
• Tradesmen International LLC*
• Global e-commerce business of Pitney Bowes, Inc.*
• Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC*

 *Matter handled prior to joining Latham