Sanjay Murti

About Sanjay Murti

Sanjay’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense, corporate governance and general corporate matters spanning many industries. He has worked on numerous M&A transactions, including high-profile sales and acquisitions of publicly traded companies, acquisitions and sales of private companies, carve-out divestitures and spin-offs, joint ventures and other strategic partnerships.

Sanjay has worked on some of the biggest and most transformative M&A transactions of our time, both purely US as well as cross-border. His clients have included ADT, Brookfield, Canadian National Railway, Centrica, City Brewing, Conduent, Crown Castle, DiaSorin, Evergy, Ferroglobe, IBM, J.D. Power, Johnson & Johnson, Martin Marietta, Nestlé, Oshkosh, Qualcomm, OUTFRONT Media, Scientific Games, Stanley Black & Decker, Swvl and Vista Outdoor.

Recent work

• Johnson & Johnson on numerous transactions, including its $13.1 billion pending acquisition of Shockwave Medical, Inc., the separation of Kenvue, its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed, the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity, the $1.045 billion sale of its Codman Neurosurgery business to Integra LifeSciences and Janssen’s $750 million acquisition of bermekimab from XBiotech.
• Viacom’s transaction committee on the $30 billion merger with CBS.
• Canadian National Railway on its proposed $33.6 billion combination with Kansas City Southern.
• Scientific Games in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield.
• Centrica in its $3.625 billion divestiture of Direct Energy to NRG Energy.
• Consolidated Communications’ special committee on its the pending $3.1 billion acquisition by Searchlight and BCI.
• DiaSorin on its $1.8 billion acquisition of Luminex.
• Martin Marietta on its $1.625 billion acquisition of Bluegrass Materials.
• ADT on the $1.6 billion sale of its commercial business to GTCR and its $1.2 billion equity investment from State Farm.
• Crown Castle on the $1.6 billion sale of CCAL to a consortium led by Macquarie.
• Stanley Black & Decker on its $1.6 billion acquisition of the remaining stake in MTD.
• Swvl on its $1.5 billion SPAC combination with Queen’s Gambit, including a $111.5 million PIPE investment and a $471.7 million equity financing facility, its proposed $100 million acquisition of Zeelo and its acquisitions of Urbvan, Volt Lines, door2door, Viapool and Shotl.
• Oshkosh on its $800 million acquisition of the AeroTech business from JBT.
• OUTFRONT Media on the pending C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media.
• ZimVie on the pending $375 million sale of its spine business to H.I.G. Capital.
• AG Mortgage Investment Trust on its definitive merger agreement with Western Asset Mortgage Capital.
• Artel on its acquisition by Advanced Instruments.
• Brookfield on its strategic partnership with American Equity.
• City Brewing on an equity investment, as a result of which a consortium of investors acquired 100% ownership of the company, and on its acquisition of the Irwindale brewery operations from Pabst Brewing.
• Conduent on the sale of its U.S.‑based human resource consulting and actuarial business to H.I.G. Capital and the sale of its commercial vehicle operations business to Alinda Capital Partners.
• Evergy on its agreement with Elliott Management.
• IBM on its acquisition of StepZen.
• J.D. Power on its sale to Thoma Bravo.
• Qualcomm on the commercial terms of its settlement of global litigation with Apple, including a global six‑year patent license agreement and a multiyear chipset supply agreement.
• Taro on its acquisition of Alchemee, formerly The Proactiv Company, from Galderma.
• Vista Outdoor on its acquisition of Camp Chef.