Arian Mossanenzadeh is a partner in the firm’s Executive Compensation Group. His practice involves a wide range of executive compensation matters, primarily advising public and privately held companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and other corporate transactions. He also counsels clients on the drafting and negotiation of incentive compensation arrangements and executive employment and separation agreements, as well as securities and tax law issues pertaining to executive compensation.
Prior to Paul, Weiss, Arian’s experience includes advising:
- Brookfield Asset Management as 50 percent equity investor with Digital Realty Trust in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Ascenty from Great Hill Partners
- Calpine Corporation in its $17 billion sale to Energy Capital Partners and a consortium of investors
- Cardworks in its acquisition of Ally's credit card business
- Convey Health Solutions in its $1.1 billion take-private acquisition by TPG Capital
- CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in MedRisk
- CymaBay Therapeutics in its $4.3 billion acquisition by Gilead Sciences
- The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of EchoStar in the $26 billion combination with DISH Network
- GreenSky in its $2.24 billion acquisition by Goldman Sachs
- HCSC in its $3.3 billion acquisition of Cigna's Medicare businesses and CareAllies
- Hg Capital in its investment in Intelerad Medical Systems
- IBM in multiple transactions including its acquisitions of Accelalpha, Hakkoda and StepZen
- IFM Investors in its $10.3 billion acquisition of Buckeye Partners
- Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in multiple transactions including in its acquisition of Golden State Foods
- Martin Marietta in its $2.05 billion acquisition of aggregates operations from Blue Water Industries
- New Senior Investment Group in its $2.3 billion acquisition by Ventas
- OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media
- Panasonic Corp. in its 20% strategic equity investment in Blue Yonder with an estimated enterprise value of $5.5 billion
- Roark Capital Group and Inspire Brands in Inspire Brands’ $2.3 billion acquisition of Sonic Corp.
- SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation
- WiseTech Global in its $2.1 billion acquisition of e2open
- White Mountains Insurance in its $1.775 billion sale of NSM to Carlyle
