Saee Muzumdar

Saee Muzumdar is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. Saee is a corporate transactional lawyer whose practice focuses on representing strategic companies and private equity clients (including their portfolio companies) and their boards of directors in connection with all aspects of their domestic and cross-border M&A activities and general corporate counseling.

Saee has significant experience with acquisitions and divestitures of public and private entities (including both negotiated transactions and contested takeovers), and board and special committee representations, both with respect to transactional matters and in crisis counseling.  She also works on proxy contests, tender and exchange offers, recapitalizations, spinoffs, carveouts, joint ventures, LBOs, growth equity and other investments, and other complex corporate transactions. In addition, Saee has represented a number of major investment banks as financial advisors in M&A transactions and financial institutions in connection with their investment activities.

Saee is ranked by Chambers USA as a leading corporate M&A lawyer with clients noting she “is a brilliant lawyer who has a great work ethic and is super responsive” as well as “practical, business-oriented and efficient.” She has been recognized as a leading corporate attorney by The Best Lawyers in America® and as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America,” by Lawdragon, as well as a “Rising Star” in M&A by the International Financial Law Review, New York Law Journal and Law360. She was named 2022 Dealmaker of the Year in the Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage category by The Deal and “Corporate Rising Star Attorney of the Year” by Euromoney Legal Media Group at its 2020 Women in Business Law Awards.

Saee received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2008 from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 2005. Saee is an active member of the firm’s Diversity Committee.

Saee is admitted to practice in the State of New York.