Rishi Sodhi

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Partner
DLA Piper LLP

Rishi Sodhi's practice focuses on advising clients on the tax aspects of a wide range of business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and strategic investments.

Rishi has represented private equity funds and public multinational corporations on numerous complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, serving as the deal lead on all tax related matters.

Having worked on hundreds of transactions, Rishi's transactional tax experience ranges considerably across sectors and legal entity types.

 

Experience

Recent transactional work includes, but is not limited to:

  • Publicly traded partnership conversion into a subchapter C corporation via "check the box" election (2018)
  • Combination of two publicly traded gaming companies (2018)
  • US private equity fund's acquisition of a global security integrator (2018)
  • US private equity fund's acquisition of a global golf and club management company (2017)
  • US private equity fund's US$1.5 billion carve-out acquisition of a global enterprise software business (2017)
  • US private equity fund's sale of a subscription based promotional, advertising and eCommerce intelligence solutions company (2017)
  • Fortune 500 company's US$2.3 billion acquisition of an identity theft protection company (2017)
  • Publicly traded digital entertainment company's US$1.1 billion acquisition of a DVR manufacturer (2016)
  • US private equity fund's US$550 million "take private" acquisition of a 3D technology development company (2016)

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