Lara Solomons is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity M&A Groups. She regularly represents public and private companies, private equity funds, portfolio companies and strategics in the full spectrum of merger and acquisition transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, minority investments and carve-out transactions. Lara’s public company experience also includes special committee assignments, corporate governance and activist defense matters.

Lara’s notable transactions include representing:

Advance Publications, a major shareholder in Charter Communications, in Charter’s $34.5 billion combination with Cox Communications
Ares Management, a stockholder of Clear Channel Outdoors, in the $6.2 billion sale of Clear Channel Outdoor to Mubadala Capital in partnership with TWG Global
Brighton Park Capital in:
- alongside other investors, in the $142 million investment in Coralogix
- as lead investor, in the $50 million investment in TheMathCompany
Crown Castle in the activist campaign by Elliott Management
Goodyear in the activist campaign by Elliott Management
HPS Investment Partners, alongside Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and certain of its existing lenders, in a $225 million new money equity capital investment in Vialto
IBM in:
- its pending acquisition of Confluent for an enterprise value of $11 billion
- its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp
The special committee of the board of directors of Madison Square Garden Entertainment in the spin-off of its traditional live entertainment businesses, to create a new publicly traded company known as Sphere Entertainment Co.
M.D.C. Holdings, a home construction company, in its $4.9 billion sale to Sekisui House
The special committee of the board of directors of QAD in its $2 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
Qualcomm Incorporated, alongside SSW Partners, in its $4.5 billion topping bid for Veoneer
Red Robin in the activist campaign by JCP Investment Management and Jumana Capital Investments
Roark Capital Group in numerous transactions, including:
- its acquisition of Dave’s Hot Chicken, reportedly valued at $1 billion
- its acquisition of Subway
- the merger of two equals of its two portfolio companies, Orangetheory Fitness and Self Esteem Brands
Stellex Capital Management in its acquisition of ICS Holding
Trivest Partners in the combination of its portfolio company, Brothers National with Pavement Partners Holding to create Pave America