Ropes & Gray Represents Haveli Investments in Financing of Cohesity’s Acquisition of Veritas’ Data Protection Business

In The News
February 9, 2024

Ropes & Gray advised Haveli Investments who led the equity financing for Cohesity’s acquisition of Veritas’ data protection business. The business combination, valued at approximately $7 billion, will form an industry leader in AI-powered data security and data management. The transaction was announced in a Feb. 8 press release and is expected to close by the end of 2024.

Haveli Investments is an Austin-based private equity firm that seeks to invest in the highest quality companies in the technology sector through control, minority or structured equity and debt investments with a focus on software, data, gaming and adjacent industries.

This team was led by private equity partners David Hutchins and Will Shields, strategic transactions partner Rajarshi Banerjee, finance partners Byung Choi, Mark Somerstein and Andrew Devore, tax partners Tristan Evans-Wilent and Scott Pinarchick, regulatory partner Ama Adams, and antitrust partner Samer Musallam.