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Bertrand Nzabandora
Senior Associate
San Francisco
Senior Associate
Biography
Bertrand advises clients on technology transactions, covering matters such as commercial contracts, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, data privacy, cybersecurity, and information technology.
Bertrand advises clients across all transaction types and sizes, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments (e.g., Series A – E), and standalone commercial projects. He also assists clients in a more advisory capacity, including advising on the increasingly complex artificial intelligence regulatory landscape in the United States.
Bertrand also has experience of advising clients in a wide range of sectors, such as sports, gaming, and financial institutions.
Bertrand works with colleagues across the global network and previously spent three years in the London office.
Practice areas
- Intellectual property
- Data privacy and data protection
- Outsourcing
- Artificial intelligence
- Complex commercial transactions
- Corporate and M&A
- Tech transactions
- Cybersecurity
- Emerging growth
Sectors
- Technology
- Private capital
- Communications media and entertainment
- Consumer and retail
- Sports
- Financial institutions
- Fintech
- Life sciences and healthcare
Selected experience
- Sanmina Corporation on its $3bn acquisition of the data center infrastructure manufacturing business of ZT Systems from AMD.
- Savvy Gaming Group on its $1.5bn acquisition and merger of ESL Gaming and FACEIT.
- IHS Mauritius BR Limited on its $952m sale of its Latin America tower operations to Macquarie Asset Management.
- CSW Industrials, Inc. on its $650m acquisition of Motors & Armatures Parts.
- Coherent Corp. on its $400m sale of its aerospace and defense business to Advent International, L.P.
- Forevision Holdings Limited on its $70m acquisition of a controlling stake in Block Bond Holdings, Inc.
- Sage Software, Inc. on its acquisition of Criterion Inc.
- Randstad on its acquisition of Torc.
- MAI Capital Management on its combination with Evoke Advisors.
- Specialized mobility investment company on its acquisition of a British electric vehicle engineering and design business focused on ultra-exclusive supercars.
Education
- BA, Law with European Law, University of Oxford, 2016
Admissions
- Solicitor, England and Wales, 2020
- Attorney-at-Law, State of California, USA, 2023