ShamimMohandessi
Associate
Corporate
smohandessi@seyfarth.com
Working across the technology, media, and telecommunications industries, Shamim counsels founders and investors as they define their growth goals and secure the capital to achieve them.
More About Shamim
With broad experience representing investors and emerging companies in raising, deploying, investing, and managing capital, Shamim provides clients with creative, forward-thinking, and practical legal advice.
Shamim advises emerging growth and lower middle-market companies on debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and managing the transition from closely held businesses to high-growth, investor-backed market leaders.
In addition, Shamim advises institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, universities, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds in various alternative investments. He regularly advises on investments in private equity, credit, and real estate strategies, as well as represents those institutional investors and independent sponsors in direct private equity investments, co-investments, joint ventures, and offshore investments.
In addition to his legal practice, Shamim serves as an adjunct professor, teaching law students the principles of negotiation in collaborative and adversarial settings.
Shamim advises emerging growth and lower middle-market companies on debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and managing the transition from closely held businesses to high-growth, investor-backed market leaders.
In addition, Shamim advises institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, universities, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds in various alternative investments. He regularly advises on investments in private equity, credit, and real estate strategies, as well as represents those institutional investors and independent sponsors in direct private equity investments, co-investments, joint ventures, and offshore investments.
In addition to his legal practice, Shamim serves as an adjunct professor, teaching law students the principles of negotiation in collaborative and adversarial settings.
- JD, Seattle University School of Law
- BA, Seattle University
International Relations and Systems of Government
- Washington
- Represented a DTC energy storage firm in the formation of a European market joint venture.
- Represented a state retirement plan in connection with a $450 million investment in global private equity strategy focused on infrastructure investments.
- Represented a state retirement plan in connection with a $60 million investment in global overlay private equity strategy focused on long-hold assets.
- Represented a state retirement plan in connection with a $50 million investment in a private credit strategy.
- Represented a Pacific Northwest rural telecom company in the sale of its wireline and wireless businesses to a competing private equity-backed platform.
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- Co-Author, “FinCEN Updates Corporate Transparency Act Guidance: New Clarity for Tribal Entities and Exempted Companies,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 18, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Looking Past the Headlines, the Impact of the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes in M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 2, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Growing Clarity: FinCEN Continues to Update Beneficial Ownership Reporting FAQs,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 25, 2024)
- Co-Author, "2023 Human Capital Disclosure Report: In Betwixt and Between," Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 5, 2024)
- Co-Author, "Latest FinCEN Guidance on the CTA Reporting Rules," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 22, 2024)
- Co-Author, "Possessing the Unpossessable – Holding Digital Assets in Your UCC Hands," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 29, 2023)
- Co-Author, "NVCA Produces University Tech Transfer Licensing Term Sheet," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 25, 2023)
- Co-Presenter, “Critical Information for Year-End CTA Compliance,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 24, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, “Institutional Investor Insights: Avoiding Minefields in Limited Partnership Agreements,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 11, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, “Corporate Governance and Succession Planning,” Washington State Bar Association Critical Tools and Practice Tips for the Outside General Counsel (September 28, 2023)
- Panelist, “Corporate Social Responsibility Hot Topics,” ACC Washington Business Summit (September 21, 2023)
- Presenter, "Understanding the NVCA Model Forms," Webinar (March 29, 2023)
Working across the technology, media, and telecommunications industries, Shamim counsels founders and investors as they define their growth goals and secure the capital to achieve them.
More About Shamim
With broad experience representing investors and emerging companies in raising, deploying, investing, and managing capital, Shamim provides clients with creative, forward-thinking, and practical legal advice.
Shamim advises emerging growth and lower middle-market companies on debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and managing the transition from closely held businesses to high-growth, investor-backed market leaders.
In addition, Shamim advises institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, universities, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds in various alternative investments. He regularly advises on investments in private equity, credit, and real estate strategies, as well as represents those institutional investors and independent sponsors in direct private equity investments, co-investments, joint ventures, and offshore investments.
In addition to his legal practice, Shamim serves as an adjunct professor, teaching law students the principles of negotiation in collaborative and adversarial settings.
Shamim advises emerging growth and lower middle-market companies on debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and managing the transition from closely held businesses to high-growth, investor-backed market leaders.
In addition, Shamim advises institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, universities, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds in various alternative investments. He regularly advises on investments in private equity, credit, and real estate strategies, as well as represents those institutional investors and independent sponsors in direct private equity investments, co-investments, joint ventures, and offshore investments.
In addition to his legal practice, Shamim serves as an adjunct professor, teaching law students the principles of negotiation in collaborative and adversarial settings.
- JD, Seattle University School of Law
- BA, Seattle University
International Relations and Systems of Government
- Washington
- Represented a DTC energy storage firm in the formation of a European market joint venture.
- Represented a state retirement plan in connection with a $450 million investment in global private equity strategy focused on infrastructure investments.
- Represented a state retirement plan in connection with a $60 million investment in global overlay private equity strategy focused on long-hold assets.
- Represented a state retirement plan in connection with a $50 million investment in a private credit strategy.
- Represented a Pacific Northwest rural telecom company in the sale of its wireline and wireless businesses to a competing private equity-backed platform.
Related Trends
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Webinar Recording
Oct 24, 2024
Webinar Recording: Critical Information for Year-End CTA Compliance
-
Media Mentions
10/01/2024
Shamim Mohandessi Discusses FinCEN Releasing Updated Version of FAQs on BOI in Financier Worldwide
-
Legal Update
Aug 14, 2024
Updated Guidance on NAV-Based Facilities for Private Equity Strategies
-
Blog Post
Jul 16, 2024
LEGAL UPDATE – FinCEN’s New Guidance on Beneficial Ownership Reporting
- Co-Author, “Updated Guidance on NAV-Based Facilities for Private Equity Strategies,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 14, 2024)
- Co-Author, “July 2024 Update: FinCEN's New Guidance on Beneficial Ownership Reporting,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 11, 2024)
- Co-Author, “FinCEN Updates Corporate Transparency Act Guidance: New Clarity for Tribal Entities and Exempted Companies,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 18, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Looking Past the Headlines, the Impact of the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes in M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 2, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Growing Clarity: FinCEN Continues to Update Beneficial Ownership Reporting FAQs,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 25, 2024)
- Co-Author, "2023 Human Capital Disclosure Report: In Betwixt and Between," Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 5, 2024)
- Co-Author, "Latest FinCEN Guidance on the CTA Reporting Rules," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 22, 2024)
- Co-Author, "Possessing the Unpossessable – Holding Digital Assets in Your UCC Hands," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 29, 2023)
- Co-Author, "NVCA Produces University Tech Transfer Licensing Term Sheet," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 25, 2023)
- Co-Presenter, “Critical Information for Year-End CTA Compliance,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 24, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, “Institutional Investor Insights: Avoiding Minefields in Limited Partnership Agreements,” Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 11, 2024)
- Co-Presenter, “Corporate Governance and Succession Planning,” Washington State Bar Association Critical Tools and Practice Tips for the Outside General Counsel (September 28, 2023)
- Panelist, “Corporate Social Responsibility Hot Topics,” ACC Washington Business Summit (September 21, 2023)
- Presenter, "Understanding the NVCA Model Forms," Webinar (March 29, 2023)