Zahara Alarakhia is a member of the Firm's Corporate Transactions and Securities Practice Group, where her practice focuses on representing corporations, partnerships and individuals on a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, including representation ranging from small, start-up entities to large, publicly-held companies.

Ms. Alarakhia has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations of public and private companies; general corporate matters, including shareholder agreements, employment agreements, distribution agreements, covenants not to compete and intellectual property license and trade secret agreements; compliance with securities laws, including periodic reporting requirements, proxy solicitations, and dispositions of securities by insiders; venture capital financings and private placements of equity and debt securities. Her practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance matters, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Act compliance.

Representative Experience:

• Representation of various technology/Internet related companies engaged in the distribution and broadcast of sports events programming, including negotiating and drafting media streaming, licensing and other rights agreements, content distribution agreements, e-commerce and sales agency agreements, website co-branding agreements, privacy policy development and web development agreements, acquisitions of trademark and domain names and marketing agreements.
• Representation of various manufacturing companies in negotiating and drafting manufacturing and distribution agreements.
• Representation of the issuer in structured finance transaction involving the issuance of approximately $37.5 million of fixed and floating rate notes in exchange for a limited partnership interest.
• Representation of the issuer in the initial public offering of $21.6 million in units, consisting of common stock and warrants, of a company organized for the purpose of acquiring an IT security company.
• Representation of a private equity investment fund manager in the private placement of $11 million of limited partnership interests in a newly formed investment fund focused on the acquisition of real estate.
• Representation of a private merchant services company and its affiliates in an offering of common and preferred stock, senior notes and subordinated notes as part of an aggregate equity recapitalization of approximately $135 million and a refinancing of an additional $200 million to provide a strategic platform for future mergers and acquisitions.
• Representation of various other domestic and off-shore private equity funds in formation, dissolution and merger transactions, and the acquisition and disposition of portfolio company investments, including extensive coordination with local counsel in numerous jurisdictions outside the United States.
• Private placements of interests in partnerships formed for the purpose of oil and gas exploration and operation of an intrastate gas pipeline, in amounts ranging from $500,000 to $54 million.