Saqeef Ahmad is an associate in Goodwin’s Business Law department and a member of the Technology group.
He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and venture and growth financings, representing public and private companies, private equity sponsors, and investors in complex, high-value transactions. Saqeef advises clients across the technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors on strategic and cross-border M&A, growth-stage and venture investments, and large-scale capital markets matters.
He regularly counsels management teams, boards, and investors on transaction structuring, execution, and governance, drawing on extensive experience across the full deal lifecycle—from early-stage financings to multibillion-dollar public company acquisitions. Saqeef’s practice combines deep M&A execution experience with sophisticated venture, financing, and capital markets fluency, enabling clients to navigate high-stakes, multidisciplinary transactions efficiently and strategically. He also advises issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings and other equity capital markets transactions and regularly assists public companies with SEC reporting, securities law compliance, disclosure obligations, and corporate governance.
Representative Matters
- Elon Musk and X Corp. (formerly Twitter, Inc.) in financing matters supporting Musk’s approximately $44 billion acquisition of X*
- BlackRock, Inc. in transactions and financing matters related to its approximately $12.55 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners*
- BlackRock, Inc. in financing matters supporting its approximately $12 billion acquisition of HPS Investment Partners*
- BlackRock, Inc. in financing matters for its approximately $3.2 billion acquisition of Preqin*
- Lightsynq Technologies Inc. in its sale to IonQ, Inc.
- Laredo Labs, Inc. in its sale to NVIDIA Corporation
- Baring Private Equity Asia in its approximately €6.8 billion acquisition by EQT AB.*
- Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate in the approximately $3.6 billion acquisition of Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc*
- Optifino, Inc. in its acquisition of Covr Financial Technologies, Inc., completed concurrently with its preferred stock financing
- Funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC in their majority investment in Businessolver*
- Performance Food Group Company (PFG) in financing matters for its approximately $2.1 billion acquisition of Cheney Bros*
* Denotes transactions completed prior to joining Goodwin Procter LLP
- Represented venture capital and growth equity investors, including Cutting Horse Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Alpha Wave Ventures, in venture financings and liquidity transactions across the technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors
- Sophont Inc. in its Series Seed Preferred Stock financing
- TaskUs, Inc. in its approximately $349 million initial public offering*
- Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in the initial public offering of Pearl Holdings Acquisition Corp*
- Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte. Ltd. in Pfizer’s approximately $31 billion offering of notes in eight tranches*
- BlackRock Funding, Inc. in its approximately $3 billion offering of notes*
- BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. in its approximately $325 million offering of notes*
- Performance Food Group Company (PFG) in its approximately $1 billion offering of notes*
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. in offerings totaling approximately $4 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes*
- Gates Industrial Corporation plc in an approximately $380 million secondary offering of ordinary shares by selling shareholders affiliated with The Blackstone Group Inc*
- The Mosaic Company in an approximately $1.26 billion secondary offering of common stock by Vale S.A., with a concurrent approximately $314.8 million share repurchase*
- Crédit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. as initial purchaser in a $500 million senior notes offering by subsidiaries of Avis Budget Group, Inc*
- Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as initial purchaser in a $600 million senior notes offering by subsidiaries of Avis Budget Group, Inc*
- Placement agents in a $100 million PIPE financing for Thayer Ventures Acquisition Corp. in connection with its merger with Inspirato LLC*
- Certain underwriters in connection with tender offers by Moody’s Corporation*
* Denotes transactions completed prior to joining Goodwin Procter LLP
Areas of Practice
Previous Professional Experience
Prior to joining Goodwin, Saqeef was an associate in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Credentials
Education
JD2020
Cornell Law School
BA2013
The George Washington University
Admissions
Bars
- New York