
Zara Bari
Biography
Zara is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Los Angeles office. Zara advises clients on a wide range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and complex strategic transactions.
Practice Focus
Zara’s practice focuses on a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions and private equity investments. She also advises companies on corporate governance matters and securities disclosures and reporting, and financing and capital markets matters.
Zara has represented clients across a range of industries, including recreation, public utilities, entertainment, technology, energy, food and beverage and retail.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represented ski resort operator in connection with sale of a ski resort and a competitive auction process for the sale of a portfolio of ski resorts.
- Represented public utilities in connection with strategic transactions, including Pacific Gas & Electric Company in the sale of its telecommunication licensing business, strategic relationship to sub-license and market wireless equipment at additional attachment locations, and a proposed separation of a business unit.
- Represented foreign investor in connection with its acquisition of convertible preferred securities in a US public company.
- Represented Nexus Capital Management in its acquisition of a home good and lightning products retailer and post-closing and corporate governance matters.
- Represented a subsidiary of Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A. de CV (FEMSA) in connection with its acquisition of a laundry and warewashing business.
- Represented the special committee of a public company’s board of directors in connection with a sale of the company.
- Advised clients in connection with bank credit facilities, registered debt issuances, commitment papers and acquisition financing, and margin loans.
Admissions
- California~United States
- New York~United States
Education
- University of Chicago Law School (JD, with honors)
- University of Texas at Austin (MPA; BBA)
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