Naveed Anwar

Naveed Anwar is a Corporate Partner based in the Firm’s Palo Alto Office. Naveed’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, where he represents public and private companies and private equity firms in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. He has experience in a broad range of transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, de-SPAC transactions, recapitalizations, venture financings, joint ventures and other complex transactions across a wide variety of sectors.

Naveed’s corporate representations have included Airbnb, Applied Systems, Dell, PPD, McKesson and UKG, among others. His private equity representations have included Hellman & Friedman, EQT, KKR, Blackstone, Silver Lake, Centerbridge, True Wind, TCV, Carlyle and Riverwood Capital.

Recently named a 2024 “MVP” in Private Equity by Law360, Naveed was also recognized as a 2024 “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500, 2022 “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer, 2021 “West Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer, a 2019 Law360 “Rising Star” in Private Equity and included in the Daily Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40” in California in 2018.

Naveed’s recent experience has included the representation of:

Corporate Transactions

• McKesson in its acquisition of Rx Savings Solutions and its joint venture combining McKesson’s US Oncology Research and HCA Healthcare Inc.’s Sarah Cannon Research Institute
• Dell in its spin-off of VMware and its exchange of Class V tracking stock
• Dell (as controlling stockholder of VMWare) in VMware’s acquisition of Pivotal Software
• UKG in its acquisition of Ascentis Corporation
• ZoomInfo in its corporate restructuring
• Kronos and Ultimate Software’s $22 billion merger
• Edelman Financial in its take-private acquisition of Financial Engines
• Acoustic in its growth investment from Francisco Partners
• Precisely in its acquisition of Pitney Bowes’ Software Solutions business
• Precisely in its sale to Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates
• Pharmaceutical Product Development in connection with its $9 billion-valued recapitalization
• Airbnb in its acquisition of Luxury Retreats
• Applied Systems in its acquisitions of EZLynx and Indio Technologies
• First Student in its acquisitions of Apple Bus and Total Transportation and the sale of First Transit
• WW International in its acquisition of Weekend Health, Inc., d/b/a Sequence
• Creditas Financial Solutions in its Series D, E and F funding rounds, and its strategic partnership with Nubank
• Gympass in its Series D funding round

Private Equity Transactions 

• Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman in their majority investment in Medline Industries
• Blackstone-led consortium in connection with its $20 billion acquisition of a majority interests in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk Business
• Silver Lake in numerous transactions, including Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware (highlighted by the Financial Times as the "deal of the decade" according to market participants), IonQ’s $2 billion merger with dMY Technology Group, PIPE investments in Motorola Solutions 
• KKR in its $975 million acquisition of the Engineering Solutions business of S&P Global Inc. 
• EQT in its investment in and subsequent $9.6 billion sale of Aldevron, its $4.6 billion acquisition of First Student and First Transit
• Hellman & Friedman in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of The NPD Group, Ultimate Software, Checkmarx, Financial Engines and investment in SimpliSafe
• Centerbridge in its acquisitions of Vision Solutions, Syncsort, and IBM’s marketing platform and portfolio of commerce software products
• Riverwood Capital in connection with a significant growth investment in HG Insights

SPAC Transactions

• Cellebrite DI Ltd.’s $2.4 billion merger with TWC Tech Holdings II Corp.
• A Place for Rover’s $1.35 billion merger with Nebula Caravel Acquisition Corp.
• IonQ's $2 billion merger with dMY Technology Group III

Naveed spent a year on secondment at 3i Group plc in London where he advised 3i’s Private Equity team on a range of acquisitions, dispositions and restructurings in North America, Europe and the Far East.

Naveed received his LPC in 2007 and his GDL in 2006 from the University of Law, London and his B.A., with honors, and his MEng., with honors, from the University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, in 2004.