Lara Aryani is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.

Her practice includes the representation of clients on a broad range of complex strategic transactions, including public and private and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures, consortium investments, divestitures and carve-outs.

She has experience across a wide range of industry sectors, including technology, fintech, media and broadcasting, renewable and transitional energy, oil and gas, chemicals, industrials, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and financial services.  Lara’s clients include multinational corporations and their boards (or special committees of the board), as well as hedge fund and private equity sponsors, family offices and pension funds.

• Paramount Global on (i) its $1.62 billion sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR and (ii)its $1.032 billion sale to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of the 80.91% aggregate membership interests in EPIX held by Paramount and Lionsgate.
• Ardagh Group, S.A. in various matters, including its (i) $8.5 billion combination of its beverage metal can business with Gores Holdings V, Inc. a publicly listed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), (ii) $2.7 billion combination of its Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business with Exal Corporation, a producer of aluminum containers and (iii) $3.42 billion acquisition from Ball Corporation and Rexam plc of certain metal beverage can manufacturing assets
• Chesapeake Utilities Corporation in its $923 million acquisition of Florida City Gas.
• Anglo American in its proposed joint venture with Vale involving the acquisition by Anglo American Brasil of the Serra da Serpentina iron ore resource and the concurrent acquisition by Vale of a 15% shareholding in Anglo American Brasil.
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its (i) $6.1 billion acquisition of NASDAQ-listed Pattern Energy Group Inc. and (ii) acquisition of a 19.3% interest in Tiendas D1, Colombia’s largest hard-discount retailer.
• Liberty Latin America Ltd. In various joint ventures, including its joint venture with The Digicel Group to jointly own and operate rights the sports and entertainment media company Caribbean Sports Limited.
• Exxon Mobil Corporation in various matters, including its sale to Empresas Copec S.A. of midstream and downstream lubricant and fuels assets in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
• The Dow Chemical Company in its spinoff from DowDuPont Inc. following the $130 billion combination of the two companies.
• Altice USA, Inc. in its sale of a 49.99% interest in its LightPath fiber enterprise business to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners.
• Glatfelter Corporation in its acquisition of Denmark-based nonwoven fabrics manufacturer Jacob Holm.
• GE Healthcare in its acquisition of IMACTIS.
• The Special Committee of the Madison Square Garden Company in various matters, including the spin-off of sports assets into the Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.
• The Olayan Group in various matters, including its joint acquisition with Rock Mountain Capital, L.P. of a 48% stake in specialty cleaning products manufacturer PurposeBuilt Brands, Inc.
• Circet US Holding LLC in various matters, including its acquisition of Further, LLC.
• Ness USA, Inc., a portfolio company of TRG Management, in the sale of its cloud-consultancy Linium and ServiceNow businesses to Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation.
• com, inc. in its acquisitions of Quip, Inc., Unity&Variety, Inc. and Sequence LLC.
• Thomson Reuters in its acquisition of Capital Confirmation, Inc.
• The Conflicts Committee of Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its acquisition of Kashiv Specialty Pharmaceuticals, LLC.
• Ardagh Group, S.A. in its offer to exchange its publicly traded shares for shares of Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A., and its subsequent delisting from the New York Stock Exchange.
• PointState Capital in its investment in Argentine renewable energy company Genneia S.A.
• Mizuho Bank, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., on its acquisition of the $36.5 billion US and Canadian loan portfolio of Royal Bank of Scotland Group in a $3.2 billion transaction.