Zahraa Hadi

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Counsel New York
Zahraa Hadi is a counsel in Weil’s Private Equity and Private Funds practice groups and is based in New York. Zahraa’s practice is focused on advising private equity sponsors, asset managers and investors on complex business transactions, including buy and sell-side GP-stake transactions, minority and control investments, preferred equity and other structured equity arrangements, as well as seeding and anchor investor transactions.

Representative Experience*

Asset Management M&A and GP Stakes Transactions

  • Blue Owl Capital in its $1 billion acquisition of IPI Partners, a digital infrastructure fund manager, from ICONIQ Capital and Iron Point Partners
  • Constellation Wealth Capital in its investment in Cresset Capital Management
  • HighBrook Investors on its sale of a minority stake to AMG
  • Hunter Point Capital in connection with a range of GP stakes and preferred equity and structured equity investments
  • Peppertree Capital Management in its acquisition by TPG Inc. 
  • TPG NEXT in connection with a range of strategic minority, seed investment and GP stake investments
  • Family offices in connection with a range of seed and minority investments in alternative asset management firms
  • Newly formed asset managers in connection with the establishment of permanent and temporary seed investments from seed investment firms, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies

Other M&A Transactions

  • Accenture in its acquisition of CreativeDrive
  • Accenture in its acquisition of Clarity Insight
  • Accenture in its acquisition of Cognosante
  • Accenture in its $1+ billion acquisition of Novetta, Inc., its largest-ever acquisition
  • Accenture in its acquisition of N3 
  • Alight Solutions in its $7.3 billion merger with Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp.
  • Butterfly Equity in its acquisition of a majority stake in Chosen Foods
  • Cerberus and Koch in their acquisition of PQ Performance Chemicals
  • Kerridge Commercial Systems in its acquisition of MAM Software Group
  • L Catterton in its acquisition of LTP Home Services Group and subsequent add-on acquisition of Acree Plumbing, Air & Electric
  • RLS Radiopharmacies on its sale to Telix
  • Stripes Group in its investment in Khaite
  • Sycamore Partners in its acquisition of Staples, Inc
  • The Ensign Group in its spinoff of its home health and hospice company into a new publicly traded company named The Pennant Group, Inc.
  • TZP Group in its investment in Constellation Advisers
  • Vista Equity Partners in its $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix
  • Warburg Pincus-backed Reorg in its sale to Permira
  • Warburg Pincus in its investment in Quantum Health
  • Warren Equity Partners in its acquisition of ADB Companies and its affiliates from the Keeley Companies

Prior to joining Weil, Zahraa was a partner at another leading international law firm.

Zahraa received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and her B.A. from the University of Michigan.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Weil.

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