Vaseghi, Maj

Maj Vaseghi

Partner

maj.vaseghi@lw.com
    Vaseghi, Maj

    Maj Vaseghi

    Partner

    maj.vaseghi@lw.com
    "An incredible partner to our team. She so capably weaves her expertise into our work. I know I will always get a thoughtful, practical and workable answer from Maj."

    Chambers USA 2024

    "Always provides excellent service with her delivery always appropriately tailored to the individual and audience."

    Chambers USA 2024

    "Does an excellent job handling complex and sophisticated matters for us. She is very responsive and a pleasure to work with."

    Chambers USA 2024

    "An excellent attorney who is very responsive."

    Chambers USA 2023

    "An absolute pleasure to work with. She's whip-smart and gets to the heart of issues very quickly."

    Chambers USA 2022

    Ranked — Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

    Chambers USA 2022–2024

    500 Leading US Corporate Employment Lawyers

    Lawdragon 2023

    Profile

    Maj Vaseghi, Vice Chair of the firm's Public Company and Board Representation Practice, advises a wide variety of clients on corporate governance, executive compensation, and employee benefits, including:

    • Representation on ongoing executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including advising board compensation committees and senior executives with respect to employment arrangements, equity and cash-based incentive plans, deferred compensation plans, and preparation of proxy materials and other securities filings related to executive compensation matters
    • Corporate transactions, including M&A and IPOs, where she advises companies on employee benefit and executive compensation aspects, including negotiating transactional documents, drafting disclosures and identifying issues arising under, and assisting in complying with, the Internal Revenue Code, labor laws, federal and state securities laws and applicable exchange rules
    • Public company representation, including advising companies on corporate governance, securities law reporting and compliance, and proxy advisory and institutional stockholder voting guidelines

    Ms. Vaseghi leverages experience representing dozens of public companies across multiple industries and complementary perspectives on tax and securities matters to advise clients regarding their most sensitive issues.

    Drawing on her previous role as in-house securities and corporate governance counsel at VMWare, Ms. Vaseghi keenly understands the business issues that large public companies commonly face.

    Ms. Vaseghi frequently writes and speaks on executive compensation, corporate governance, and tax-related issues.

    Experience

    Ms. Vaseghi’s experience includes representing:

    • Universal Music Group in its spinoff from Vivendi SE and listing of 60% of its share capital on Euronext Amsterdam at US$40 billion and concurrent sale of 10% of Vivendi’s holding in UMG to Pershing Square
    • Sitel Group in its US$2.2 billion take-private of Sykes Enterprises
    • LANXESS in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of the microbial control business of International Flavors & Fragrances
    • Western Union in the US$910 million sale of Western Union Business Solutions to Goldfinch Partners and Baupost Group
    • Zymergen in its IPO, conversion to a public benefit corporation and listing on Nasdaq, and acquisition of Lodo
    • TriNet in its acquisition of Zenefits from Francisco Partners
    • Rayner Surgical in its acquisition of OMIDRIA from Omeros
    • Agilent in its acquisition of Resolution Bioscience
    • America Movil on transactions to form a multibillion-dollar telecom JV with Liberty Latin America in Chile and to sell Claro Panama to Liberty Latin America
    • Royal Caribbean in its sale of Azamara
    • Belden in the sale of its individual cable business in Brazil to Yangtze Optical
    • Clever Leaves in its SPAC transaction with Schultze Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.

    Ms. Vaseghi’s representative clients include:

    • Advanced Micro Devices
    • Airbnb
    • American Airlines
    • Apple
    • Avery Dennison
    • Bio-Rad
    • Broadcom
    • Cadence Design Systems
    • Cerevel Therapeutics
    • Cheesecake Factory
    • Eventbrite
    • Frontier Airlines
    • Intuitive Surgical
    • Molina Healthcare
    • Procept BioRobotics
    • Realty Income Corporation
    • Skechers
    • Smart Global
    • Summit Hotels
    • Universal Music Group
    • Veeva
    • Western Union

    The experience listed above includes matters handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, Columbia University School of Law, 2002
    • BS, Columbia University, 1999

    Practices

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