Kiani Lasala

Helping clients on general corporate advisory matters

Kiani Lasala focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity transactions and corporate counseling. She advises private equity sponsors, independent sponsors, founders and privately held companies on a broad range of strategic transactions, including:

• Acquisitions
• Divestitures
• Recapitalizations
• Growth investments

Kiani regularly serves as an advisor throughout the transaction lifecycle, helping clients assess risk, negotiate transaction documents, and navigate complex legal and business issues. Her experience spans a variety of industries, including the car wash sector and automotive services, healthcare, construction, technology and software, and land banking ventures.

In addition to her M&A practice, Kiani regularly advises clients on joint ventures, governance matters, entity structuring and other corporate transactions. She also has experience counseling clients on sophisticated commercial arrangements and industry-specific operating structures.

Clients value Kiani's responsive, solutions-oriented approach and her ability to identify practical paths forward while balancing legal risk with business objectives.

• Advised a multinational company in the semiconductor industry in an internal corporate reorganization with the purpose of unifying the business, reducing administrative costs, simplifying the organizational structure and integrating several acquisitions.
• Assisted a car wash company in a sale to private equity in a transaction valued at over $90 million.
• Represented a founder in the sale and exit of an automotive repair business to an industry peer in a transaction valued at over $100 million.
• Represented a leading industrial automation and digital systems integrator in connection with a majority investment by a private equity sponsor in a transaction valued at approximately $70 million.
• Advised on the purchase, sale and combinations of various companies in the healthcare and related industries including businesses in hospice, anesthesia, speech and occupational therapy, and special education and development.