Rami Sherman

Rami has been part of teams advising on the technology and intellectual property aspects, as well as on the data privacy and cybersecurity aspects of the following matters:

• Acquiring Consortium that includes MBK Partners, The Crawford Group and Ctrip Investment Holdings in the Consortium's $850 million take-private of eHi Car Services Limited 
• Advent Global Technology, as lead investor, in a $160 million investment in Zenoti, resulting in a post-investment basis valuation for Zenoti of over $1 billion
• Aleph Capital and Crestview in their investment in Framestore and Framestore's merger with Company 3 and Method, Inc. following Company 3 and Method’s carve-out from Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.
• American Securities in its acquisitions of CPM Holdings, Inc. and CS Energy LLC
• Antin Infrastructure Partners in its pending acquisitions of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone Co Inc (together known as Empire)
• Ardian in its acquisition of a majority stake in Florida Food Products, Inc., in a transaction that valued Florida Food at more than $1 billion and Florida Food Products, Inc. in its acquisition of Comax Manufacturing Corp. and T-Bev, Inc.
• Aurora Resurgence Management Partners and Equity Group Investments in the sale of SIRVA, Inc.
• Avista Capital Partners and MPI Research, Inc. in the approximately $800 million sale of MPI Research to Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.
• Avista Healthcare Public Acquisition Corp. in its acquisition of Organogenesis Inc.
• Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. in its $125 million acquisition of Dropworks, Inc.
• Blackstone in its $130 million acquisition of a minority stake in PayCargo, LLC (a portfolio company of Insight Partners); its acquisitions of a majority stake in ZO Skin Health, Inc.; and a majority stake in New Tradition Media; and its investments in ISN Software Corporation, in a transaction that valued ISN over $2 billion and Sema4
• Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Brookfield Property Partners L.P. (BPY) in BPY's $14.4 billion acquisition of the approximately 66% of common stock that it did not already own of GGP Inc. (f/k/a General Growth Properties Inc.)
• Brookfield Principal Credit LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent for the lenders, in the $928 million 363 asset sale of the North American assets of Bumble Bee Foods, LLC
• Campbell Soup Company in its $6.1 billion acquisition of Snyder’s-Lance, Inc. and its $2.2 billion sale of Campbell International, Inc.
• Charlesbank Capital Partners, together with Robert Long and Blair Ramey of Sanofi’s North American Consumer Healthcare division, in the formation of Bridges Consumer Healthcare LLC and Bridges' acquisitions of the North American rights to ThermaCare® HeatWraps and Clarion Brands, LLC
• Culligan International Company (a portfolio company of Advent International) in its acquisition of OASIS Corporation
• Dermira, Inc. (a subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company) in its sale of QBREXZA
• EQT Infrastructure II in its sale of Synagro Technologies, Inc.
• Guidepost Growth Equity in its investment in ThinkHR Corporation
• H&R Block, Inc. in its $405 million acquisition of Wave Financial Inc. 
• Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. in its $960 million acquisition of Antares Pharma, Inc.
• Heartland Dental Care, LLC in the sale, by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and other existing shareholders, of a majority stake in Heartland to KKR & Co., with Ontario Teachers' retaining a sizeable ownership stake
• ICG Strategic Equity in its acquisition of an indirect interest in Datavant Group
• Inhabit IQ (a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, GSV and PSG) in its acquisition of ResMan, LLC
• JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of The Infatuation, Inc.
• Legg Mason, Inc. in its $6.5 billion sale to Franklin Templeton Investments
• Luxor Capital Group in its investment in Montage Hotels & Resorts (d/b/a Montage International)
• Maines Paper & Food Service Inc. in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Lineage Logistics, Inc.
• Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. in its $27.5 billion sale to Analog Devices, Inc.
• NEOGEN Corporation in its pending $5.3 billion combination with the Food Safety business of 3M, in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that implied an enterprise value of the combined company of $9.3 billion
• Oak Hill Capital Partners and its portfolio company, EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants (EPIC) in the merger of EPIC and JenCap Holdings, LLC (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group); and EPIC in its acquisitions of Integro Holdings Inc. and Prime Risk Partners Inc.
• OMERS in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Premise Health Holding Corp.
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in, together with L Catterton and others, the sale of PetVet Care Centers, LLC
• ORIX Capital Partners in the sale by its portfolio company, Hoffman Southwest Corporation, of all of Hoffman's Roto-Rooter franchise operations to Roto-Rooter Services Company
• Parts Town LLC (a portfolio company of Berkshire Partners) in its acquisition of Heritage Food Service Group
• Providence Equity Partners and PSG, as part of a consortium led by CVC Capital Partners and that also included Ridgemont Equity Partners, in the business combination of GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. with Worldwide Express, Inc.
• Providence Equity Partners in its acquisitions of GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. and a majority stake in 365 Retail Markets, LLC and its sale of Vector Solutions
• PSG in its acquisitions of ThreatConnect, Inc. and a majority stake in Singlewire Software, LLC; its investment in and sale of a majority stake in LogicMonitor Inc.; as lead investor in a $100 million investment in Introhive, Inc.; and SchoolStatus LLC in its acquisition of TeachBoost; and Vertical Knowledge L.L.C. in its sale to Babel Street, Inc.
• Quest Diagnostics Inc. in its acquisition of Blueprint Genetics
• Sanofi in its $11.6 billion acquisition of Bioverativ Inc.; its $4.8 billion acquisition of Ablynx NV; its $2.5 billion acquisition of Synthorx, Inc.; and its up to $1.1 billion-plus-royalties sale of the exclusive worldwide rights to Libtayo to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• SGS SA in its $335 million sale of Petroleum Service Corporation to Aurora Capital Partners 
• SoftBank Vision Fund, together with Toyota Motor Corporation and DENSO Corporation, in a $1 billion investment in the Advanced Technologies Group of Uber Technologies Inc. 
• Susquehanna Growth Equity in its acquisition of a majority stake in MediSpend and Real Capital Analytics, Inc. in its $950 million sale to MSCI Inc.
• TCV, as lead investor, in a $550 million preferred stock financing round for Peloton Interactive Inc.
• Tempo Music Investments, LLC (Tempo) (a portfolio company of Providence Equity Partners) in its acquisition of the assets of Influence Media Music SPV, LLC; its acquisition of certain assets of Barometer Music Royalty Fund I Inc.; and its joint venture with Warner Music Group Corp.
• The Home Depot, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets of The Company Store Group, LLC
• TPG Growth in its acquisition of a majority stake in Morrow Sodali and, as lead investor, in a $124 million investment in Prodigy Education
• TPG Pace Solutions Corp., a SPAC sponsored by TPG Pace Group, in its $4.5 billion business combination with Vacasa LLC
• TruArc Partners (f/k/a Snow Phipps Group) and its portfolio company Brook & Whittle Limited (B&W) in the sale of B&W to Genstar Capital
• TurnKey Vacation Rentals, Inc. in its merger with Vacasa LLC
• Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC in its $4.6 billion sale of substantially all of its global business to Brookfield Business Partners L.P.

Rami joined Weil as a summer associate in 2016. He received his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where he served at the Michigan Innocence Clinic helping to exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners, and his B.A. from Kalamazoo College. Rami has provided pro bono legal services on behalf of clients, including NEXT for Autism.