Sanjana Rao

Sanjana has been part of the teams advising on, among others, the following matters:

• Sanofi SA in its acquisition of Provention Bio Inc. for $2.9 billion
• AltC Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Churchill Capital in its $850 million business combination with Oklo Inc.
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in its approximately $200 million sale of Wiley University Services to Academic Partnerships (a portfolio company of Vistria Group)
• Advent International in the sale of Certinia Inc. (f/k/a FinancialForce.com, Inc.)
• ChampionX Corporation in its pending sale to SLB
• PSG in its investment in Packback Inc.
• Clayton Dubilier & Rice in the merger of its portfolio company Cynosure with Lutronic Corporation
• PSG and its portfolio company Vertical Knowledge L.L.C. in its sale to Babel Street, Inc. (a portfolio company of Veritas Capital Fund Management, L.L.C.)
• Nexa Equity and its portfolio companies, including acquisition of Storewise
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) and its portfolio companies, including acquisition of Trademark Cosmetics, Inc.
• Trive Capital, together with Crux Capital Ltd, in their recapitalization of HTeaO
• MarketAxess Holdings Inc. in its acquisition of Pragma Securities, LLC and Pragma Financial Services, LLC
• Ilegal Mezcal in its sale to Bacardi International Limited
• GS Amp TopCo LLC (a portfolio company of Genstar Capital) in its acquisition of NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.
• ICG Strategic Equity in its acquisition of an indirect interest in Datavant Group

Prior to joining Weil, Sanjana practiced in the tax department of a large law firm. Sanjana received her LL.M. in International Taxation from New York University as a Gerald L. Wallace Scholar, and her LL.B. from National Law University, Jodhpur (India) as an Aditya Birla Scholar. She was a member of the senior editorial board of the Trade, Law & Development journal at National Law University, Jodhpur and received honors as the highest ranked student in the Trade Law specialization.