Sonia Nijjar represents clients in a wide range of U.S. and cross-border corporate transactions, including some of the largest and most complex mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, tender and exchange offers, joint ventures, private equity investments and minority investments.
In addition to her transactional work advising boards of directors, special committees and senior management teams, Ms. Nijjar provides strategic counsel to both public and private companies on securities law, corporate governance, activist investor situations and other general corporate matters. Ms. Nijjar’s deep understanding of the legal landscape and her commitment to client success have made her a trusted adviser to some of the most influential companies in Silicon Valley.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers | 2027 | M&A, Private Equity |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2026 | Corporate, esp. M&A |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | M&A, Private Equity |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2025 | Corporate, esp. M&A |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2025 | M&A, Private Equity |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2024 | Corporate, esp. M&A |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2024 | M&A, Private Equity |
| The 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2023 | Corporate, esp. M&A |
| The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2022 | Corporate, esp. M&A |
| The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2022 | M&A, Private Equity |
| The 2021 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2021 | |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2021 | M&A, Private Equity |
| The 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2020 |
Her transactions include the representation of:
- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. in its $22 billion combination with Qorvo, Inc.
- Activision Blizzard Inc. in its $75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation
- Netflix in multiple transactions, including its proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery for $82.7 billion and its acquisitions of Scanline VFX and Animal Logic
- Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.
- Xilinx in its $49 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices
- Intel Corporation in its:
- $8.75 billion sale of a 51% stake in Altera Corporation to Silver Lake
- agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. to jointly invest approximately $30 billion to create a first-of-its-kind Semiconductor Co-Investment Program that introduces a new funding model to the semiconductor industry
- $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye
- Coherent in its initially announced $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum, followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war culminating in Coherent’s $7.1 billion sale to II-VI
- Livongo in its $18.5 billion acquisition by Teladoc Health
- Credit Karma in its $8.1 billion acquisition by Intuit and the $50 million divestiture of its tax business, Credit Karma Tax, to Square, Inc.
- Willis Towers Watson in the $4 billion sale of its treaty reinsurance business Willis Re to Gallagher
- Brookfield Asset Management Reinsurance Partners in its $5.1 billion acquisition of American National Group
- Broadcom Corporation in its $37 billion sale to Avago Technologies Limited
- Nokia Corporation in the $7.2 billion sale of its devices and services business to Microsoft Corporation
- SanDisk Corporation in its $19 billion acquisition by Western Digital Corporation and its $1.1 billion acquisition of Fusion-io, Inc.