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Aria Mahboubi is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s private equity group. Aria represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide range of complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, recapitalizations, co-investments and other equity investment transactions. He also regularly counsels clients on general corporate and governance matters. Aria has advised clients across a number of industries, including software/technology, health care, sports, consumer and industrials.
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Aria was a mergers & acquisitions associate in the New York office of another international law firm.
Experience
- Represented an ad hoc group of second lien lenders of Yak Access, LLC, a provider of temporary roadways to remote construction sites, in connection with its out-of-court recapitalization and exchange transaction, which eliminated over $500 million of debt. As part of the recapitalization, holders of second lien term loans received a significant primary equity stake as well as various series of preferred stock in the recapitalized Yak.
- Represented New Mountain Capital in 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.
- Represented Aquiline Capital Partners in connection with the formation of MDpanel, a platform aimed at improving the processing of workers’ compensation insurance claims, combining California Medical Legal Specialists and California Medical Evaluators Holdings, two leading providers of support services for physicians performing workers’ compensation evaluations.