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Business intelligence service The Deal has named White & Case partners Denise A. Cerasani (New York) and Tali Sealman (Silicon Valley) among its "Top Women in Dealmaking" honorees for work performed in 2022. This marks the second consecutive year the partners – both members of the Firm's Global Mergers & Acquisitions practice – have been named to the list.
Top Women in Dealmaking distinguishes US-based women partners who are "setting the bar for the next generation of attorneys" in legal fields including M&A, private equity, restructuring and activist investing.
Cerasani leads the Firm's M&A Financial Advisory practice. Her practice focuses on securities, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. She has counseled and represented clients in a variety of industries and has developed a niche practice devoted to White & Case's investment banking clients.
Sealman works closely with companies as well as strategic and financial buyers and growth equity investors across a full spectrum of transactions in the technology and life science sectors, including strategic acquisitions, cross-border merger and acquisitions, Israeli-related transactions, unsolicited transactions, growth equity investments and other game-changing transactions. Sealman also serves as corporate counsel and a trusted advisor for tech and life science companies on a regular basis.