Edmond R. Parhami
Partner
New York
edmond.parhami@lw.com
+1.212.906.2961
PRACTICES
- Emerging Companies & Growth
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Public Company Representation
INDUSTRIES
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Technology
EDUCATION
- JD, Cornell Law School, 2012
cum laude - MBA, Cornell University, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, 2012
- BS, Cornell University, 2009
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- Farsi (Persian)
PROFILE
Edmond Parhami advises private equity firms and public companies on their most complex and important M&A and joint venture transactions. Edmond represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies, as well as public companies on a broad range of transactions, including:
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Leveraged buyouts
- Cross-border carve-outs
- Joint ventures
- Recapitalizations
- Controlling and minority investments
- Spin-offs and RMTs
- Corporate governance and other matters
Edmond regularly advises clients forming joint ventures across industries, jurisdictions, and positions, including controlling, minority, and 50/50 investors.
He draws on vast experience advising on transactions in the energy and healthcare industries, as well as a range of other sectors from retail and consumer products to technology and manufacturing.
EXPERIENCE
Edmond 's representative experience includes advising:
Energy and Infrastructure
- Antin Infrastructure Partners on a number of matters, including its acquisition of a majority stake in Origis Energy, a vertically integrated renewable energy platform in the United States
- Searchlight Capital Partners in its strategic investment in:
- Adams Outdoor Advertising, an out of home media operator in a deal reported to be valued at more than US$1 billion
- All Points Broadband, an internet service provider (ISP) employing a unique model of public-private and electric-utility partnerships to provide universal high-speed broadband access across the Commonwealth of Virginia and in adjacent markets
- Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) in the sale of their 44% interest in Puget Holdings, a provider of electric and natural gas services and indirect parent entity of Puget Sound Energy, to a consortium of investors including OMERS Infrastructure and PGGM
- Energy Transfer Partners in the US$1.6 billion joint venture investment with Blackstone Energy Partners in ET Rover Pipeline, a pipeline designed to transport domestically produced natural gas
- Cogentrix Power, a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group, in its acquisition of a portfolio of three power generation facilities with 1,000-MW of peaking generation units in the PJM Interconnection of Illinois
- ArcLight Capital in the US$2 billion sale of NET Midstream, a provider of midstream natural gas transportation services, to NextEra Energy Partners
- Energy Capital Partners, along with a consortium of investors, in the US$17 billion acquisition of Calpine Corporation, a wholesale power generation company, operating natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants
Healthcare
- Searchlight Capital Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Care Advantage, a leading at-home care provider in the United States
- Consonance Capital Partners in a number of matters, including the:
- Sale of Enclara Healthcare, a solution provider to healthcare organizations
- Sale of TurnKey Health, a community-based palliative care organization
- Sale of Kepro, a solution provider to government-sponsored healthcare programs
- Acquisition of Bako Integrated Physician Services, a provider of specialty laboratory testing services
- Acquisition of excelleRx and PBH Holding, providers of medication consultation and pharmaceutical distribution services
- Acquisition of Priority OnDemand
- Astorg in its acquisition of Open Health
- Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division in its acquisition of Capital Vision Services from Altas Partners and CDPQ
Tech and Manufacturing
- Searchlight Capital Partners in the recapitalization of MediaMath and merger of an affiliate of Searchlight into MediaMath, making Searchlight the indirect majority owner of MediaMath
- 363 sale of MD Helicopters
- Universal Instruments, a provider of precision automation solutions for smart manufacturing, in its sale to Delta Electronics
- Performance Designed Products, a developer of video game accessories and peripherals, in its sale to Diversis Capital Partners
- Digital Colony Partners in connection with the:
- Formation of a consortium with EQT Partners and other investors for the acquisition of Zayo Group Holdings
- Formation of a consortium of investors to develop and acquire digital infrastructure assets
- DXC Technology Company in its US$2 billion all-cash take-private acquisition of NYSE-listed Luxoft Holding
- KKR in connection with the global carve-out of Hyperion Materials & Technologies, an industrial tool component manufacturer, from Sandvik
- Rakuten Marketing in a number of matters, including in the:
- Acquisition of Deep Forest Media, an operator of programmatic mobile platforms
- Acquisition by Slice Technologies of Unroll.Me, a provider of email management services
- Koch Industries in its US$7.2 billion take-private acquisition of Molex Incorporated
Retail, Services, and Hospitality
- Searchlight Capital Partners in its minority investment in Euclid Transactional, a managing general agent focused on transactional risk insurance solutions, including representation and warranty, tax indemnity, and contingent liability insurance products across North America and Europe
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in connection with the US$1.5 billion Reverse Morris Trust transaction between Starwood’s vacation ownership business, Vistana Signature Experiences, and Interval Leisure Group
- Safeway, a national food and drug retailer in North America, in its US$9.4 billion take-private sale to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management
- Ares Management in the acquisition of the asset-based lending portfolio of First Capital Holdings, a commercial finance company