Akansha Mishra is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s executive compensation & employee benefits group.
Akansha advises a wide variety of clients with respect to executive compensation and benefits issues arising in corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, initial public offerings and other strategic transactions. Akansha’s practice includes the structuring and design of equity compensation arrangements and management compensation arrangements, and advising clients on the associated tax implications. She also has extensive experience representing both senior executives and financial sponsors in the negotiation of employment, change in control and separation arrangements.
Over the course of her career, Akansha has advised both public and private companies across a variety of industries, including biotech, technology, financial services, energy, consumer products and retail, and industrials.
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Akansha was an associate in the tax, executive compensation and benefits group at another global law firm.
Experience
- Represented Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in its $14.1 billion pending acquisition of U.S. Steel.
- Represented Kanders & Company, Inc. in its agreement to acquire and combine certain antenna and test equipment businesses from L3Harris Technologies for $200 million.
- Represented EnergySolutions in an agreement to purchase certain assets and liabilities of Williams Industrial Services Group, a provider of infrastructure related services to blue-chip customers in energy and industrial end markets, and its subsidiaries assets for $60 million.
- Represented Silver Lake in connection with its $1.46 billion sale of ServiceMax to PTC, a software solution provider.
- Represented Advent International in its $175 million investment in Tredence Inc., a data science and AI engineering company.
- Represented Oscar de la Renta Ltd. in connection with executive compensation matters.
- Represented New Mountain Capital in connection with executive compensation and employee benefits matters relating to its portfolio companies, and in connection with mergers and acquisitions, including:
- its acquisition of Radancy, the global leader in enterprise software and services solutions for end-to-end talent sourcing, and represented Radancy in its subsequent add-on acquisitions of Ascendify (a provider of CRM-based recruiter tools) and Brazen Technologies (a provider of advanced hiring event technology).
- its growth investment in ClaimLogiq, a healthcare technology platform that enables complex claim reviews for health plans prior to payment.
- its acquisition of Apixio, an artificial intelligence platform that enables value-based care, and the combination of Apixio with ClaimLogiq.
- its majority investment in ALKU, a specialized contingent staffing and consulting firm, focused on providing highly skilled individuals within areas of life sciences, cloud technology, healthcare IT, data science, and cybersecurity.
- its acquisition of The Emmes Company, a tech-enabled clinical research organization, from affiliates of Behrman Capital, and Emmes’s add-on acquisition of Essex Management.
- Sears Holdings Corporation and its affiliated debtors in one of the largest retail chapter 11 cases in history involving $6 billion of debt.*
- MGM Resorts International in its $1.625 billion acquisition of the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.*
- MGM Resorts International in its $1.075 billion sale of the operations of The Mirage Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip to Hard Rock International.*
- Gores Metropoulos II, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by Gores Metropoulos Sponsor II LLC (an affiliate of The Gores Group and Dean Metropoulos), in its $1.925 billion business combination with Sonder Holdings.*
*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray