Naveed Anwar is a Corporate Partner based in the Bay Area. 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, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, recapitalizations, venture financings, joint ventures de-SPAC transactions and other complex transactions across a wide variety of sectors.
Naveed’s private equity representations have included KKR, Hellman & Friedman, EQT, Francisco Partners, Blackstone, Silver Lake, Centerbridge, True Wind Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures, Carlyle and Riverwood Capital and their respective portfolio companies, among others. His corporate representations have included Airbnb, Applied Systems, Dell, PPD, McKesson and UKG, among others
Named a 2024 “MVP” in Private Equity by Law360, Naveed is also recognized as a 2024 “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500, and was named a 2022 “Dealmaker of the Year” and a 2021 “West Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer, a 2019 Law360 “Rising Star” in Private Equity and was included in the Daily Journal’s 2019 “Top 40 Under 40” in California.
Naveed’s recent experience has included the representation of:
Private Equity Transactions
- KKR in multiple transactions, including its: $3.1 billion acquisition of OSTTRA; $4 billion acquisition of Broadcom Inc.’s End-User Computing Division; $1.62 billion acquisition on Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global; $975 million acquisition of the Engineering Solutions business of S&P Global Inc.; and sale of RBmedia to H.I.G. Capital
- Hellman & Friedman in multiple transaction, including its: $3.02 billion acquisition of Financial Engines; acquisition of the NPD Group and the subsequent merger with Information Services; $1.15 million acquisition of Checkmarx; strategic investment in Baker Tilly; and investment in SimpliSafe and subsequent sale of SimpliSafe to GTCR
- EQT in its investment in and subsequent $9.6 billion sale of Aldevron to Danaher, and its $4.6 billion acquisition of First Student and First Transit and subsequent sale of First Transfer to Transdev
- Francisco Partners in its pending $2.2 billion take-private acquisition of Jamf from Vista Equity Partners and $2.1 billion acquisition, together with Clearlake Capital, of Black Duck Software from Synopsys, Inc.
- 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 and its PIPE investments in Motorola Solutions
- Centerbridge in its acquisitions of Vision Solutions and Syncsort and subsequent sale to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates, and its acquisition of IBM’s marketing platform and portfolio of commerce software products
- Riverwood Capital in multiple transactions, including its significant growth investment in HG Insights and the acquisition by Sensor Tower (a Riverwood Capital portfolio company) of data.ai
- Blackstone-led consortium in connection with its $20 billion acquisition of a majority interests in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk Business
- A consortium led by Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman in their majority investment in Medline Industries
Strategic Transactions
- Dell (as controlling stockholder of VMWare) in VMware’s acquisition of Pivotal Software and subsequent spin-off of VMware and its exchange of Class V tracking stock
- Kronos and Ultimate Software in their $22 billion merger to create UKG, and UKG in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Ascentis and Immedis
- Circana’s acquisitions of NCSolutions and Nielsen’s Marketing Mix Modeling business
- Baker Tilly’s merger with Moss Adams
- 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
- UKG in its acquisition of Ascentis Corporation
- ZoomInfo in its corporate restructuring
- 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 and subsequent 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
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.