Biography
Mirish Shah is an associate in Weil’s Technology & IP Transactions practice and is based in New York. Mirish participates in advising Firm clients in a variety of matters relating to the licensing, acquisition, development, sale, use and commercial exploitation of intellectual property and technology. He also participates in advising clients regarding privacy and data security issues in the context of corporate transactions.
Mirish has been part of the teams advising on the technology and intellectual property aspects, as well as on the data privacy and cybersecurity aspects of the following matters:
- Advent Global Technology, as lead investor, in an investment Cyware Labs, Inc.
- Advent International in the $3 billion merger of its portfolio companies Clearent LLC and Transaction Services Group Limited to form Xplor Technologies; its acquisition of a substantial minority stake in Iodine Software, LLC, in a transaction that valued Iodine at more than $1 billion; and the acquisition by its affiliate AI Beauty Holdings of bareMinerals, BUXOM and Laura Mercier (collectively, n/k/a Orveon)
- Allego Holding B.V. (n/k/a Allego N.V.) (a portfolio company of Meridiam Infrastructure Partners) in its $3.14 billion business combination with Spartan Acquisition Corp. III, a SPAC sponsored by Spartan Acquisition Sponsor III LLC (an affiliate of Apollo Global Management)
- Antin Infrastructure Partners in its pending acquisitions of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone Co Inc (together known as Empire)
- Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in New Tradition Media, its investment in Hotwire Communications and, together with EQT Growth, in a $450 million funding round for Epidemic Sound Holding II AB, in a transaction that valued Epidemic at $1.4 billion
- ChampionX Corporation in its pending sale to SLB
- Deluxe Corporation in its $960 million acquisition of First American Payment Systems, L.P.
- DirecTV, LLC in its acquisition of certain assets and liabilities related to the advertising sales business segment of DirecTV
- Gores Holdings VI, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by The Gores Group, in its $2.9 billion business combination with Matterport, Inc.
- Graycliff Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Landmark Structures
- JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of The Infatuation, Inc.
- Kainos Capital LP and Evriholder Products, LLC in its acquisitions of Axe Holdings, LLC and Home Sweet Home Holdings, Inc..
- The Kroger Company, along with The Albertsons Companies, Inc., in the approximately $1.9 billion sale of 413 stores, as well as select banners, distribution centers, offices and private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC in connection with Kroger’s proposed merger with Albertsons Companies Inc.
- The Kroger Company in its pending sale of Kroger Specialty Pharmacy to CarelonRx Inc.
- Luxor Capital Group in its investment in Montage Hotels & Resorts (d/b/a Montage International)
- PSG in its acquisitions of SchoolStatus LLC and Vault Verify LLC; and Propertybase in its acquisition of Cross Media, LLC
- Sanofi in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Kadmon Holdings, Inc. and its pending approximately $2.2 billion acquisition of Inhibrx, Inc.
- SiriusXM in its acquisitions of Cloud Cover Music and Team Coco
- Storytel AB, a publicly traded portfolio company of EQT, in its $135 million acquisition of Audiobooks.com
- Susquehanna Growth Equity in its acquisition of a majority stake in MediSpend
- TruArc Partners in its acquisition of Watchtower Security, LLC
- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. in its sale of AT&T SportsNet Southwest to Houston Astros and Houston Rockets
- Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC (a portfolio company of Brookfield Business Partners) in its pending acquisition of BHI Energy
Mirish received his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center and his MPP and B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park.