Mayer Brown announced today that Vinita Sithapathy has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities practice in New York, adding significant depth to its M&A and infrastructure capabilities. Vinita joins the firm from Freshfields.
“We are thrilled Vinita is joining Mayer Brown’s market-leading infrastructure M&A practice,” said William Kucera, co-leader of Mayer Brown’s global M&A practice. “Her combination of experience working with strategic and financial sponsor clients in a variety of industries is a perfect fit and will make our infrastructure M&A practice even stronger as we look ahead to what we expect will be increased deal flow.”
Vinita has over a decade of experience representing public and private companies, private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, and other investors on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and sales of companies and businesses, joint ventures and consortium transactions, private investments and management rollovers. Her work spans a variety of industries, including telecom, energy, transportation, concessions, food and agriculture, life sciences and consumer goods and manufacturing.
“Mayer Brown’s global platform with its entrepreneurial culture and depth of offering in the infrastructure space stood out to me,” said Vinita. “I am thrilled to join this exceptional team at a time when the firm is continuing to strengthen and expand its infrastructure M&A capabilities and look forward to joining forces in providing clients with world-class service.”
Matt Ingber, the managing partner of Mayer Brown’s New York office, added, “Vinita’s skillset in the M&A space will be invaluable in servicing our clients in New York and globally as we continue expanding our capabilities based on our clients’ evolving needs.”