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Vijay Sekhon

Vijay Sekhon

USA 2026

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Practice Areas

VIJAY SEKHON’s practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales and reorganizations of businesses and special situations for companies and private equity and hedge funds. Vijay also focuses on public debt and equity offerings, private placements, and purchases and sales of debt and equity, and general corporate and securities law, including advising companies and private equity and hedge funds on their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws.

He has represented Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., The Blackstone Group, L.P., TPG Capital, KKR & Co., Inc., Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., Elliott Management Corp., Citizens JMP Group, LLC, EQT Partners, Canyon Partners, Franklin Templeton Investments, Pine River Capital Management, L.P., TowerBrook Capital Partners, The Yucaipa Companies, LLC, Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Inc., Siris Capital Group, LLC, Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., Universal Studios Japan, Polar Asset Management Partners Inc., Bear Creek Asset Management LLC, Fundamental Advisors LP, Z Capital Partners, L.L.C., Faraday Future, QVT Financial, JHL Capital Group, Glendon Capital Management LP, Tribune Publishing Company, Castle Creek Capital LLC, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and certain of their affiliates, Banc of California, Zelnick Media Capital, Hello Alfred, and ICON Aircraft, Inc.

Vijay is also an adjunct professor at Berkeley Law and served as senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2009 to 2011, and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law from 2014 to 2017. He was a judicial intern for former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Vijay has published numerous articles related to law, business and finance in respected academic and practitioner journals, including the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Securities Regulation Law Journal, the New York Business Law Journal, The Real Estate Finance Journal, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law and the Review of Banking & Financial Law as well as a book titled Corporate Acquisitions and Mergers in the United States (Wolters Kluwer ed. 2024).

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Private Equity: Buyouts - California

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial
Vijay Sekhon's robust expertise in private equity matters sees him regularly representing private equity funds in M&A deals across a broad range of sectors.

Strengths

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  • Vijay is highly responsive, effective and efficient from the client's perspective. He is strong with respect to his level of sophistication and ability to execute a deal in the most effective manner possible.

    Private Equity: BuyoutsChambers Guide to the USA
  • My honest opinion of Vijay is that he is a rare combination of a genuinely patient, honest, nice guy who also happens to be one of the best legal minds I have come across. There are a lot of really smart lawyers, but I truthfully have never felt more genuinely represented than when Vijay was fighting for me.

    Private Equity: BuyoutsChambers Guide to the USA
  • He's extremely sophisticated and responsive, and he's easy to work with.

    Private Equity: BuyoutsChambers Guide to the USA
  • Vijay is very strong, responsive and knows his stuff very well.

    Private Equity: BuyoutsChambers Guide to the USA

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