Ziyad H. Aziz

Ziyad has advised on the following significant matters*:

• Insight Partners on its investment in connection with the merger of Comply365 and Vistair Limited
• Keyfactor, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on a significant minority investment from Sixth Street Growth
• Insight Partners and portfolio company Keeper Security on Summit Partners’ equity investment in Keeper Security
• Fresh Express Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chiquita Holdings Limited, in the acquisition of Dole plc’s Fresh Vegetables Division
• Capstreet Group in the sale of Onpoint Industrial Services
• Appriss, a portfolio company of Insight Partners and Clearlake, in its acquisition of PatientPing, a care collaboration software provider, and its sale of Appriss Insights, LLC, a wholly owned business unit, to Equifax, Inc. for $1.825 billion
  
• Veeam Software, an Insight Partners portfolio company, in its $150 million acquisition of Kasten, a market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery
• Diligent, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its investment from Clearlake Capital and Blackstone
• Insight Partners in its sale of Checkmarx for $1.15 billion, the largest sale of an application security company to date
• Insight Partners in its acquisition of Veeam Software for $5 billion
• Kony Inc. in its acquisition by Temenos for up to $580 million
• Fourth and Insight Partners in the hospitality technology merger of HotSchedules and Fourth, backed by Marlin Equity Partners and Insight Partners
• Insight Partners and Appriss on Clearlake Capital’s equity investment in Appriss
• Virgin Pulse and its controlling owner, Insight Venture Partners, in the sale of Virgin Pulse to Marlin Equity Partners
• Bonduelle in its acquisition of Ready Pac Foods
• Valtech Cardio in its acquisition by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation for up to $690 million
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition of Superior Vision Corporation from Nautic Partners
• Valtech Cardio in its proposed acquisition by HeartWare International for $875 million
• Appriss in its acquisition of The Retail Equation
• Insight Venture Partners in its control investment in Virgin Pulse
• Radian Group in its $810 million sale of Radian Asset Assurance to Assured Guaranty
• Helm Financial and its controlling owner, k1 Ventures, in the sale of Helm Financial
• Sony Corporation of America in its $2.2 billion acquisition of EMI Music Publishing with a consortium of acquirors
• Illumina in its defense against Roche's unsolicited cash tender offer and proxy contest 
• Allstate in its $1 billion acquisition of Esurance from White Mountains Group
• MetLife in its $16.2 billion acquisition of the ALICO division of AIG and certain subsequent divestitures of ALICO businesses
• Alimentation Couche-Tard in its unsolicited cash tender offer for Casey's General Stores

^{* Ziyad advised on some of these matters at his prior firm.}