Bio

Mehdi Khodadad practice focuses on representing leading technology and life sciences companies and their private equity and other investment sponsors. He counsels corporate clients, entrepreneurs, and investors on a wide variety of transactions, including private and public financings, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and related private equity transactions, cross-border and other structured corporate transactions. Mehdi also regularly advises the boards of directors, management, and special committees of corporate clients and their investors on a wide variety of securities law and corporate governance matters. Mehdi was included on the “Leaders of Influence: Private Equity Investors & Advisors” list for 2020 and 2021, published by The Los Angeles Business Journal, and was named to their 2020 “Thriving In Their 40’s” list, honoring leading business professionals. He also led the Sidley team that received The Deal’s “Private Equity Deal of the Year” award for 2020. Mehdi was recognized by the American Lawyer as a “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2015 for his work on one of the 20 most significant transactions that year, and was named one of the Daily Journal’s “Top 20 Lawyers Under 40” that year as well. Mehdi earned a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he was awarded the High Tech Law Certificate in intellectual property law and served as the editor-in-chief of the Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.