Joseph A. Kamyar

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Kamyar spent nine months on secondment to Brookfield Asset Management and six months on secondment at a company in Abu Dhabi.

His experience prior to joining the firm includes advising: 

• News UK on its joint ventures with:
  • the Daily Mail with respect to both publishers’ printing operations
  • The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Reach with respect to an advertising technology platform
• Standard Chartered Bank on:
  • the sale of banking businesses in Angola, Cameroon, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
  • the investment into, and merger of, Assembly Payments and CurrencyFair, as well as on subsequent fundraisings
•  MGFO, as majority shareholder, on Starling Bank’s £270 million Series D funding round and various governance matters
• Atalaya, as lead investor, on Allica Bank’s £70 million funding round, as well as on subsequent fundraisings
• Quilter on its £480 million sale of Quilter International to Utmost
• Helios Investment Partners and CAB Payments on the IPO of CAB Payments
• a U.K.-based global systemically important bank (GSIB) on the sale of its Greek banking business
• Cerberus on the €1 billion acquisition of HSH Nordbank
• Brookfield on the $5 billion acquisition of Modulaire from funds managed by TDR Capital
• Cisco on its $700 million acquisition of Acano, a video conferencing and collaboration service provider
• IFC, Convergence Partners and Mitsui & Co on their joint venture with Google with respect to a broadband infrastructure business
• NatWest Markets on a Brexit-related group reorganisation, including the transfer of its European investment banking business under a Part VII scheme
• a U.K.-based GSIB on the ringfencing of its U.K. retail and commercial banking businesses and reorganisation of its private banking business, each of which were completed under a Part VII scheme, as well as on the reorganisation of its Channel Islands business under court-approved transfer schemes in Jersey and Guernsey