Biography
Sanjana Rao is an Executive Compensation & Benefits associate in Weil’s Tax Department and is based in New York. Sanjana participates in the representation of Firm clients with respect to the executive compensation, employee benefits and ERISA issues in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, initial public offerings, restructurings and other strategic transactions.
Sanjana has been part of the teams advising on, among others, the following matters:
- ChampionX Corporation in its pending $7.8 billion sale to SLB
- Bell Canada in its C$5.0 billion acquisition of Ziply Fiber
- Sanofi SA in its $2.9 billion acquisition of Provention Bio Inc.
- DT Midstream in its $1.2 billion acquisition of a portfolio of three FERC-regulated natural gas transmission pipelines from ONEOK, Inc.
- CPP Investments in its approximately $1 billion investment in support of merger between Novolex (a portfolio company of Apollo) and Pactiv Evergreen
- Willis Towers Watson PLC in its $632 million sale of TRANZACT to GTCR and Recognize
- Goldman Sachs in its $440 million strategic investment in BrightNight
- AltC Acquisition Corp, a SPAC sponsored by AltC Sponsor LLC (an affiliate of M. Klein and Company, LLC) in its business combination with Oklo Inc.
- Advent International in the sale of Certinia Inc. (f/k/a FinancialForce.com, Inc.)
- Nexa Equity and its portfolio companies, including acquisition of Storewise; Autura in its merger with Traxero (a portfolio company of Radian Capital)
- EQT Transition Infrastructure in its acquisition of Scale Microgrids
- 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
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.