Linklaters is delighted to announce that Vinita Sithapathy has joined the firm’s M&A practice as a partner in New York. Vinita’s arrival builds on Linklaters’ transformational growth in the US over the past year, including the addition of market-leading partners across the firm’s corporate, finance, and disputes practices.
Linklaters US Global Practice Head Tom McGrath said:
“Transformational growth in the US with a focus on M&A continues to be a global priority. We’ve had a string of market-leading M&A deals this year led by George Casey and Heiko Schiwek. Vinita further deepens our top-tier corporate bench and complements our existing full-service offering.”
Linklaters Global Chairman of Corporate George Casey added:
“Vinita adds additional strength to our US M&A offering, reinforcing our ability to advise clients on their market-leading deals. Her experience advising multinational corporates and investors across industries will be invaluable as clients increasingly turn to us for their most complex and significant transactions.”
Vinita has significant 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 M&A, joint ventures, consortium transactions, private investments and management rollovers. Her work spans a variety of industries, including technology, telecom, energy and infrastructure, food and agriculture, healthcare, consumer goods and manufacturing. She was previously at Freshfields in New York for 10 years and most recently at Mayer Brown prior to joining Linklaters.
Linklaters has transformed its US offering over the past two years with top-of-the-market partners across M&A, litigation, structured finance, restructuring and insolvency, international arbitration, real estate, intellectual property, energy and infrastructure, financial regulation, capital markets, tax, executive compensation and employee benefits and environmental.
This growth has transformed the firm’s US offering, most recently culminating in such landmark mandates as advising Dow on its partnership transaction with Macquarie Asset Management to launch $6 billion Diamond Infrastructure Solutions, advising Rio Tinto on its $6.7 billion acquisition of Arcadium Lithium, advising Volkswagen on its up to $5.8 billion joint venture and investment transactions with Rivian and advising BASF on the $1.15 billion sale of its Brazilian decorative paints business to Sherwin-Williams.
Linklaters’ US growth has also led to a significant leap in the firm’s league table standings, ranking 14th for US M&A in LSEG and 8th for US private equity deals in Bloomberg — complementing the firm’s top 10 M&A rankings in the UK, Europe and Asia. Linklaters advised on over $210 billion worth of deals in 2024, with over 650 M&A lawyers advising clients across the globe on their most complex and significant transactions.
