Astrid Menendez-Muharram is an associate in the firm’s Corporate Practice. She advises clients on a broad range of corporate matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, and general corporate governance in the United States and Latin America.

Astrid regularly assists corporations and venture capital funds in a variety of transactional matters including financings, strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border licensing and technology transactions. She is also active in the firm’s pro bono program, including through volunteering at a variety of immigration clinics and criminal record clearing clinics.  

She speaks fluent Spanish.

Representative Experience

• Aurotech, a provider of digital services and business solutions for U.S. federal healthcare and adjacent civilian agencies, in connection with its acquisition by OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm.
• Autodesk in its acquisition of CAMplete, a developer of simulation and other software for machine tooling machinery.
• Banco Inter S.A., a publicly traded Brazilian digital bank and its affiliates, in connection with its $157 million acquisition of Pronto Money Transfer Inc. (also known as “Usend”), a fintech company established in the United States and with subsidiaries in Brazil, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
• Definitive Logic in connection with its acquisition, and related acquisition financing, of Digital Mobilizations, a digital transformation firm with market leading capabilities for enterprise-level digital transformation initiatives at the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community.
• Divvy, a leader in spend management, in its sale to Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates complex back-office financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The stock and cash transaction was valued at approximately $2.5 billion.
• Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLPN), a leading independent entertainment marketing and premium content development company, in its acquisition of Shore Fire Media, Ltd., a public relations and media management firm based in Brooklyn, New York that specializes in music, entertainment and popular culture.
• DPR Construction in connection with its acquisition of GE Johnson, a general contractor headquartered in Colorado Springs with projects in the healthcare, education, multi-family/hospitality, advanced technology, commercial office, public/Federal, and cultural markets.
• onsemi (NYSE: ON), a leading supplier of intelligent power and sensing technologies, in connection with its acquisition of GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT), a producer of silicon carbide (SiC), for $415 million in cash. 
• Shinagawa Refractories in connection with its acquisition of Saint-Gobain’s ceramic businesses mainly used in the traditional iron and steel industry, including Vinhedo in Brazil and Latrobe in the U.S.
• SoftBank Latin America Fund in connection with its investment in the $200 million Series C funding round in Addi, a fintech startup based in Bogota, Colombia that offers buy-now-pay-later technology.
• SoftBank Latin America Fund, Riverwood Capital, Igah Ventures, and Volpe Capital in connection with their investments in CRM&BONUS’s R$280 million financing round. CRM&BONUS is a Brazilian-based platform that allows real-time control of giftback delivery to consumers.
• SoftBank in its investment in the Series B financing of Buser, Ltd., an intercity bus charter online booking service in Brazil.
• SoftBank in connection with a Series D investment round totaling $250 million in QuintoAndar, a Sao Paulo-based real estate leasing platform that is changing the long-term rental marketplace in Brazil.
• SoftBank in the Series B $108 million financing round in Brazilian IDTech pioneer in ID protection solutions, Acesso Digital. General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, also invested in the round.
• SoftBank as lead investor in the $83 million Series E financing of Brazilian test-prep startup Descomplica.
• Uber Technologies, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in Cornershop, a grocery delivery start-up that is active in Chile, Mexico, Peru and Canada, to expand its food delivery business.
• Uber Technologies, Inc. in its $1.4 billion acquisition of the remaining 47% stake in Chilean grocery delivery company Cornershop Inc., which followed the company's acquisition of a majority stake.
• Unity Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading platform for developing interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, in its acquisition of Codice Software S.L., a Spain-based developer of version control technology designed to handle source code and all related assets in software projects.