Weil is advising Blackstone in its $400 million Series F funding round for Cyera, the industry’s leading AI and data security company, bringing Cyera’s total funding to over $1.7 billion. This raise comes just six months after the previous round and triples the company’s valuation from a year ago to $9 billion. The round was led by funds managed by Blackstone with participation of all inside investors including Accel, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Sapphire, Sequoia Capital, and Spark.

The Weil team is led by Private Equity partner Nicholas Doloresco and includes U.S. Private Equity Co-Head Christopher Machera and associates Nicole Chen, Jeffrey Fu, Gianna Jenkins and Grace Embrey; Tax partner Chayim Neubort and associate Manpreet Kaur; Executive Compensation & Benefits partner Amanda Rotkel and associate Amanda Nowak; Employment partner Rebecca Sivitz and associate Paige Mickel; Technology & IP Transactions partner Kane Wishart and associate Aron Lichtschein; Privacy & Cybersecurity partner Liza Cotter and associate Jeeyoon Chung; Regulatory Transactions partner Antonia Tzinova and associate Sisi Liu; and U.S. Antitrust Co-Head Brianne Kucerik, partners Neil Rigby and Michael Naughton and associate Meghana Appalaraju.