Sadi Moradi
Biography
Overview
Sadi is an associate in White & Case's Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group in the Houston and New York offices. His practice focuses on the tax and employment, compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private equity investments, joint ventures, cross-border transactions and general corporate matters.
Before joining White & Case, Sadi attended the Georgetown University Law Center where he obtained his Taxation LL.M and Estate Planning Certificate. Through the program, he externed for two domestic law firms, working mostly on tax controversy, foreign non-grantor trusts (incorporating aspects of Shari'a law) and international tax issues. Sadi also received an award from the 2021 Tax Notes Writing Competition for his research paper advocating for the utilization of relative data usage and bandwidth capacity in figuring a jurisdiction's entitlement to Amount A (i.e., an alternative solution to the current, global digital taxation conundrum faced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).
Sadi has also been an Analytics Office Intern for the Division of Investment Management of the SEC, an Equity Derivatives Analyst for a leading global brokerage and investment bank's New York office, and a Financial Analyst for a national middle-market contractor.
Estate Planning Certificate
Experience
Recent matters include the representation of:
Electric commercial vehicle company VIA Motors International, Inc. on its acquisition (in an all-stock merger valued at up to US$630 million) by Ideanomics, Inc., a global company focused on driving the adoption of commercial electric vehicles and associated energy consumption.