Niki Namazi

Since joining Kirkland, Niki has been involved in the following matters:

• WeWork Companies LLC, a subsidiary of WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE), in a liability management transaction that effectuated offers to exchange $1.2 billion of its existing public notes for a combination of newly issued second lien or third lien notes and common stock and $1.65 billion of its unsecured notes held by SoftBank for newly issued second lien convertible notes, third lien convertible notes and common stock, reducing WeWork’s net debt by approximately $1.5 billion, and a concurrent primary offering of $500 million of newly issued first lien notes
• Represented Thoma Bravo as lead investor in a $70 million Series C financing round in AppOmni, the leading provider of SaaS security.
• Represented Thoma Bravo as lead investor in a $100 million Series D financing round in Imply Data, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid. Imply Data delivers the complete developer experience for Druid by developing innovative databases purpose-built for modern analytics applications.
• Greenbelt Capital Partners as lead investor of a consortium in an investment with Trilantic Energy Partners II North America, Blackstone Credit and Energy Impact Partners in ION Solar LLC, a leading provider of rooftop solar sales and installations.

Mark Migdal & Hayden, 2020–2021

Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, 2019–2020