People
Azka Anees
Biography
Azka advises clients on corporate transactions involving both public and private companies, including mergers, acquisitions, asset deals and strategic investments.
She represents corporate and private equity clients across a variety of sectors including technology, telecommunications, and financial services, among others.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private client
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
- Funds and asset management
- Financial services advisory and regulatory
- Insurance
- Private equity
Sectors
- Financial institutions
- Private capital
- Technology
- Insurance
- Private equity
- Sovereign wealth and institutional investors
Selected experience
- Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited in the USD1.65bn take-private acquisition of Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
- Macquarie Asset Management in the USD1.8bn sale of its North American and European public investments funds business to Nomura.
- Despegar.com Corp. in its USD1.7bn take-private acquisition by Prosus N.V.
- TELUS Corporation on its take-private acquisition of TELUS Digital, valuing TELUS Digital at USD2.9bn.
- GlobalFoundries Inc. in its USD 445m acquisition of the Processor IP Solutions business of Synopsys, Inc. and its USD300m acquisition of MIPS Holding, Inc.
- MAI Capital Management, LLC in its USD531m combination with Evoke Advisors.
Education
- J.D., Osgoode Hall Law School MSc, Philosophy and Public Policy, London School of Economics BA (Hons.), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Exeter
Admissions
- Attorney-at-law, State of New York, 2025
- Foreign Legal Consultant, Province of Ontario, Canada, 2026