Sehj Vather, P.C.
Partner
Tax
Overview
Sehj Vather is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. Sehj has extensive experience in both public and private transactions, and handles a wide range of matters focusing on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and spin-offs, both domestic and cross-border. Sehj also advises clients on the tax aspects of securities issuances, bankruptcy and restructuring, and investment funds. Sehj has been recognized in The Legal 500 U.S. for his work in International Tax and U.S. Taxes.
Experience
Representative Matters
Sehj’s notable representations both prior to and after joining Kirkland include:
Public Companies
- AbbVie in its $30 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics
- Actelion in its $30 billion sale to Johnson & Johnson
- Alight in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Aon’s retiree exchange business
- Alight in its $7.3 billion merger with Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp
- AllianceBernstein in its $3 billion acquisition of Ramius Alternative Solutions
- BB&T in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Susquehanna Bank
- Cadence Bancorporation in its $1.4 billion acquisition of State Bank
- Cardinal Health in its $2 billion acquisition of Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis business
- Carlisle in its $2 billion sale of Interconnect Technologies to Amphenol
- Compass in its $10 billion merger with Anywhere Real Estate
- Compass in its $440 million acquisition of At World Properties
- CRH in its $8.5 billion acquisition of Arcosa
- Delphi Technologies PLC in its $3.3 billion sale to BorgWarner Inc
- Dufry in its $1.7 billion acquisition of The Nuance Group
- Ferguson plc in its corporate restructuring and redomiciliation to the United States
- Gramercy Property Trust in its $7.6 billion sale to Blackstone
- Haynes International in its $970 million sale to North American Stainless
- Infineon Technologies in its $10.1 billion acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor
- Intelsat in $6 billion of liability management transactions
- Jared Isaacman, founder of Shift4, in the company’s corporate and TRA restructuring
- LCI Industries in its $7.7 billion merger with Patrick Industries
- Lionsgate in its $4.4 billion acquisition of Starz
- Lockheed Martin in its Emberpoint wildfire solutions JV with PG&E and others
- Mako Surgical in its $1.6 billion sale to Stryker
- Meta in multiple transactions in the AI space
- Motorola Solutions in its acquisition of Exacom
- Perficient, Inc. in its $3 billion sale to EQT
- Perrigo in the $2.8 billion sale of its Tysabri royalty stream to Royalty Pharma
- Potbelly in its $566 million sale to RaceTrac
- Public Investment Fund in its $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts
- Steris in its $1.9 billion merger with Synergy Health
- Tesla in its acquisition of Grohmann Engineering
- The Vitamin Shoppe in its sale to Franchise Group Inc
- Tim Hortons in its $11.4 billion sale to Burger King
- T-Mobile in its $146 billion merger with Sprint
- Verizon in its $130 billion buyout of Vodafone’s interest in Verizon Wireless
- Walgreens in its $23 billion sale to Sycamore
- Warner Brothers in its $37 billion liability management transaction
- Washington Prime Group in its $4.3 billion acquisition of Glimcher Realty
- XPO Logistics in its $3 billion acquisition of Con-way
Private Companies
- Advent International
- $2.5 billion acquisition of Sapiens International
- $6.3 billion acquisition of Nuvei Corp
- Acquisition of Reckitt’s Essential Home portfolio ($4.8 billion)
- TK Elevator in its $34 billion combination with KONE
- Ultra Electronics in its sale of Forensic Technologies
- Zentiva’s €2 billion debt restructuring
- Apollo
- $1.3 billion acquisition of Chuck E. Cheese’s
- $1.3 billion acquisition of Presidio
- $5.1 billion acquisition of West Corporation
- EIG Global – Rosehill Resources Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Equinox in Silver Lake’s private equity investment
- KKR
- $1.4 billion convertible equity investment in NextEra renewable energy projects
- $900 million convertible equity investment in NextEra wind and solar infrastructure
- Acquisition of Corel Corp
- Calabrio in its acquisitions of Calypso and Teleopti
- Onex Partners
- $1.6 billion multi-asset continuation vehicle transaction
- Stone Point and CPPIB’s majority investment in OneDigital ($7 billion)
- The Heritage Group in its acquisition of FORTA
- The Jordan Company
- Acquisition of Simpleview
- Acquisition of USALCO from H.I.G. Capital
- iNRCORE’s recapitalization with Warburg Pincus
- THL Partners
- $1.4 billion sale of Nextech
- $1.8 billion majority investment in Celerion
- $2.8 billion partial sale of Autostore to Softbank
- $3 billion carveout acquisition of Brooks Automation from Azenta
- Acquisition and sale of Hexure (formerly Insurance Technologies)
- Acquisition of AbacusNext
- Acquisition of Adare Pharma Solutions with Frazier Healthcare
- Acquisition of Bazaarvoice
- Acquisition of Bynder
- Acquisition of Care Hospice
- Acquisition of Carpe Data
- Acquisition of House of Design
- Acquisition of inRiver AB
- Acquisition of Odessa
- Acquisition of Red Nucleus
- Acquisition of YA Group
- AmeriLife Group’s continuation vehicle transaction and partial sale
- Combination of Fortna and MHS, and partial sale to ADIA
- Goldman Sachs’ preferred investment in Auction.com
- Investment in Smile Doctors
- Recapitalization of Hightower and several add-on acquisitions
- Welsh Carson
- Acquisition of GovernmentCIO
- Acquisition of Green Street Advisors from Golden Gate Capital
- Sale of Green Street Advisors
- Sale of Intoxalock
Spin-Offs and RMTs
- Actelion in its Swiss demerger of Idorsia
- CNX Resources in its spin-off of CONSOL Energy
- Dana in its $10 billion RMT combination with Eaton’s Mobility Business
- ServiceMaster in its spin-off of FrontDoor
- Simon Property Group in its spin-off of Washington Prime Group
- Ventas in its spin-off of Care Capital Properties
- W.R. Grace in its spin-off of GCP Applied Technologies
- Warner Bros. Discovery in its announced separation into two publicly traded companies
Prior Experience
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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Recognition
Recognized in The Legal 500 United States for International Tax and US Taxes
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2012New York
- 2008New Zealand
Education
- Stanford Law SchoolLL.M.2011
- University of AucklandLL.B.with Honors2008
- University of AucklandB.Com., Accounting2008
News &
Insights
Kirkland Advises Investor Consortium on Close of $55 Billion Acquisition of EA