Baghdikian, Tiana Talar

Tiana Talar Baghdikian

Associate

tiana.baghdikian@lw.com
    Baghdikian, Tiana Talar

    Tiana Talar Baghdikian

    Associate

    tiana.baghdikian@lw.com

    Profile

    Tiana Baghdikian is an associate in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. She is currently the Global Leader of Latham’s First Generation Professionals Affinity Group.

    Tiana represents both public and private companies, particularly in the technology and life sciences industries. She advises clients across a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions for strategic clients, capital markets transactions, and corporate governance matters.

    In addition to her commercial work, Tiana maintains an active pro bono practice.

    Tiana received her JD from Columbia Law School where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar all three years. While in law school, Tiana was an articles editor for the Science and Technology Law Review and served on both the boards of the California Society and the Society for Law, Science and Technology.

    Prior to law school, Tiana received her BS in bioengineering as a Regents Scholar and Alumni Scholar from the University of California - Los Angeles, where she graduated cum laude.

    Experience

    Tiana’s representative experience, with an emphasis on mergers & acquisitions work, includes advising on the following transactions:

    Technology, Fintech, Software, and Electronics

    • Coinbase Global, Inc. in its:
      • US$2.9 billion acquisition of Deribit
      • US$375 million acquisition of Echo
      • Acquisition of The Clearing Company
    • Amphenol Corporation in its:
      • US$10.5 billion acquisition of CommScope’s connectivity and cable solutions business
      • US$2.1 billion acquisition of CommScope’s mobile networks businesses
    • Ouster, Inc. in its:
      • US$600 million merger-of-equals with Velodyne
      • US$1.9 billion business combination with Colonnade Acquisition Corp.
      • Acquisition of StereoLabs
      • Acquisition of Sense Photonics
    • NVIDIA in its acquisition of Run:ai
    • Switch, Inc. in its US$11 billion acquisition by affiliates of DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors
    • Cloudways in its US$350 million acquisition by DigitalOcean Holdings
    • Joby Aviation in its US$4.5 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners

    Healthcare and Life Sciences

    • J.P. Morgan as financial advisor to RAPT Therapeutics’ US$2.2 billion acquisition by GSK
    • HilleVax in its acquisition by XOMA Royalty
    • LENSAR, Inc. in its pending acquisition by Alcon
    • bluebird bio, Inc. in its acquisition by funds managed by Carlyle and SK Capital Partners
    • Icosavax, Inc. in its US$1.1 billion acquisition by AstraZeneca
    • Amgen, Inc. in its US$900 million acquisition of Teneobio

    Retail and Consumer Products

    • e.l.f. Beauty in its up to US$1 billion acquisition of rhode
    • OURA in its acquisition of Sparta Science
    • Owlet Baby Care Inc. in connection with capital markets matters relating to its US$1.39 billion merger with Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation

    Other

    • J.P. Morgan as financial advisor to NCR Atleos’ pending US$6.6 billion acquisition by The Brink’s Company
    • Goldman Sachs as financial advisor to Sun Country Airlines’ pending US$1.5 billion cash and stock acquisition by Allegiant
    • Bolt Threads, Inc. in its business combination with Golden Arrow Merger Corp
    • PACS Group, Inc. in its upsized US$450 million IPO
    • Realty Income Corporation in its acquisition of VEREIT, Inc.
    • Playtika in its US$1.9 billion initial public offering
    • Numerous follow-on offerings for public companies, especially in the life sciences industries

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, Columbia Law School, 2020
      Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
    • BS in Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017
      cum laude

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