< Directory Jahangier Sharifi

Jahangier Sharifi specializes in investment and financing transactions, including private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private investments in public companies. He regularly represents hedge funds and private equity funds in connection with their investments in companies in a broad range of industries both in the U.S. and in other jurisdictions. Mr. Sharifi assists clients throughout the life cycle of their investments in companies: advising clients on their rights and duties as investors, including with respect to board appointees; negotiating follow-on investments; evaluating proposed investments by new investors; effecting divestitures through private sales or the public markets; and providing guidance on restructuring or recapitalization of companies. Mr. Sharifi regularly advises clients on issues relating to the receipt of confidential information and market standards for non-disclosure agreements.

Mr. Sharifi also represents sponsors in structuring and capitalizing private investment funds and other investment vehicles. He assists investor clients with seed investments in new funds and with restructuring existing fund investments.

Representations include:

• Newly-formed private equity fund management company in negotiating anchor investment;
• Fund sponsor in the formation and capitalization of a new specialty-finance platform focusing on the franchising sector;
• Lead investor in providing equity funding in the formation and capitalization of a sidecar reinsurance vehicle;
• Co-investors in private equity investments in a lithium-ion battery manufacturer;
• Financial investor in providing seed capital for a newly-formed hedge fund in Brazil;
• Initial financial investor in a leading executive services firm that was previously wholly-owned by its partners;
• Lead investor in the initial institutional round of financing for a Turkish social networking website, and in the negotiation of the subsequent investment in that company by a strategic investor;
• Co-investors in the equity restructuring of an ethanol producer in Brazil; and
• Debt investors in negotiating shareholder rights for post-reorganization equity and equity kickers granted in connection with loan restructurings.

Mr. Sharifi serves as a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Sharifi is admitted to practice in New York.

News

• U.S. News-Best Lawyers awards RK&O "Law Firm of the Year" in White Collar-Government Investigations Law and recognizes firm's other practice areas

Seminars & Speaking Engagements

• RK&O partners participate in the panel discussion "Receiving Information, Managing Risk, and Preserving Liquidity: Strategies for the Current Regulatory Landscape" at the Financial Services General Counsel Luncheon in San Francisco
• RK&O partners present "Receiving Information, Managing Risk and Preserving Liquidity: Strategies for the Current Regulatory Landscape" at the Alternative Asset Management General Counsel Luncheon in New York City
• RK&O partners co-host "From Creditor to Equity Holder: How to Make Your Post-Reorganization Equity Work Harder for You"

Publications

• "From Lender to Shareholder: How to Make Your Equity Work Harder for You" by Jahangier Sharifi and Catherine Rossouw
• "From Lender to Shareholder: How to Make Your Equity Work Harder for You" by Jahangier Sharifi and Catherine Rossouw published in The Hedge Fund Law Report
• "Equity Kickers: Extra Point for Lenders" by Jahangier Sharifi and Thao Do published in The Secured Lender
• "Changes Coming to Fund Compensation Structures?" by Jahangier Sharifi and Kenneth Werner
• "Equity Kickers: Extra Point for Lenders" by Jahangier Sharifi and Thao Do
• Lending, Investing and Trading After the Market Break