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Alidad Adam Damooei

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Partner

T 213.633.8677 Los Angeles
T 212.489.8230 New York
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Alidad Damooei is a trusted partner who anchors the firm's corporate and business transactional capabilities in the Los Angeles area. He has extensive experience representing high-profile clients—including Fortune 500 companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, innovative growth-stage ventures and real estate investment trusts. Alidad advises businesses in key markets on sophisticated mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, rollovers, minority investments, corporate governance, and complex cross-border deals.

Known for his entrepreneurial approach and deep market insight, Alidad has earned a reputation for precision and strategic vision, particularly in buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions. He guides clients across varied industries—including consumer products and services, infrastructure, real estate, technology, media, entertainment, industrials, and healthcare—through deal structuring, process management, and contract negotiations. He is hands-on in drafting critical terms of agreements and leading cross-disciplinary teams during due diligence. His comprehensive approach covers every facet of a deal, including coordinating specialists across intellectual property, employment, tax, and regulatory compliance—ensuring seamless execution even in the most challenging situations.

Admitted in California and New York, Alidad previously practiced at AmLaw 20 firms in both states as well as at a prominent Southern California business law firm. He has in-house experience at a global asset manager through a client secondment.

Practice Highlights

Private equity

Alidad has represented private equity funds and their portfolio companies both as outside counsel and as in-house counsel. In particular, he takes pride in efficiently assisting his clients in executing roll-up acquisition strategies.

Consumer products & services

Alidad has extensive experience in consumer products and services M&A working with clients in food and beverage, restaurants, retail and fashion. Key clients he has assisted include The Cheesecake Factory and Nestlé.

Real estate M&A

Alidad has worked with many companies executing corporate M&A strategies in the real estate industry. He has advised diverse real estate players ranging from a national real estate brokerage to a global infrastructure REIT.
*Denotes an attorney's experience prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine
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Admitted to Practice

  • California, 2016
  • New York, 2014

Education

  • B.A., Economics, Columbia University, 2009, summa cum laude
  • J.D., Yale Law School, 2013
    • Co-President, Law & Business Society
    • Financial Markets Teaching Fellow for Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller

Professional Recognition

    • Selected to "Southern California Rising Stars" in M&A - Business & Corporate, Thomson Reuters, 2026
    • Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2023

Background

    • Partner, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth LLP, Westlake Village, Calif., 2023-2025
    • Associate, Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, 2017-2023
    • In-House Counsel (Seconded), Ares Management LLC, Los Angeles, 2020
    • Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, 2013-2017
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