Jamal V. Lama

Jamal Lama is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Jamal’s practice focuses on advising companies and private equity firms across a wide range of industries, with specific experience in energy and infrastructure investments across geographies and asset classes. His representations include domestic and cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures, preferred equity financings and other strategic transactions.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jamal served as in-house counsel at Ares Management within the Infrastructure Opportunities, Infrastructure Debt and Alternative Credit businesses where he advised on a range of complex transactions spanning various sectors including fiber, data centers, renewable energy, midstream oil & gas, wastewater treatment, renewable natural gas and power generation.

Jamal is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the State of Colorado.

Recent Transactions

Private Equity

• Advised Macquarie Asset Management in its announced and pending acquisition of the South American wireless towers operations of IHS Mauritius BR Limited, part of IHS Holding Limited.  
• Advised I Squared Capital on its announced and pending strategic partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in Inkia Energy, a Peruvian private power generation company.
• Advised Ardian on its acquisition of the Peruvian hydropower business of Latin America Power Holding B.V.
• Advised Platinum Equity, and its portfolio company Solenis, on Solenis’ $4.6 billion acquisition of Diversey Holdings, Ltd.
• Advised KKR in its investment, with Ampersand Capital Partners, in Alliance Pharma.
• Advised Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company Hygiena on the sale of Hygiena to EW Group and acquisition by Hygiena of DuPont’s global food safety diagnostic business.*
• Advised Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company Duravant in Duravant’s strategic partnership with Carlyle and acquisition by Duravant of WECO.*   
• Advised The Chernin Group in its $263 million strategic investment in Funko, Inc.
• Advised FTV Capital in its acquisition of SingleOps.

Strategic M&A

• Advised Reload, a platform that sites, designs, and permits gigawatt-scale data center campuses paired with rapidly deployable on-site power infrastructure, on its sale to Scale, a leading vertically integrated provider of advanced energy solutions backed by EQT.
• Advised American Express Company in multiple strategic transactions, including entry by American Express Global Business Travel into a business combination agreement with Apollo Strategic Growth Capital.*
• Advised América Móvil on its acquisition of Telefónica’s operations in El Salvador and Guatemala.*

*Representations occurred prior to Jamal’s association with Gibson Dunn.

Capabilities

• Infrastructure
• Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure
• Energy and Infrastructure
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Power and Renewables
• Private Equity

Credentials

Education:

• Washington University in St. Louis - 2016 Juris Doctor
• State University of New York, Binghamton (SUNY) - 2013 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Colorado Bar
• New York Bar