Vijay Sekhon’s practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales and reorganizations of businesses and special situations for companies and private equity and hedge funds. Vijay also focuses on public debt and equity offerings, private placements, and purchases and sales of debt and equity, and general corporate and securities law, including advising companies and private equity and hedge funds on their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws.

He has represented Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., The Blackstone Group, L.P., TPG Capital, KKR & Co., Inc., Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., Elliott Management Corp., Citizens JMP Group, LLC, EQT Partners, Canyon Partners, Franklin Templeton Investments, Pine River Capital Management, L.P., TowerBrook Capital Partners, The Yucaipa Companies, LLC, Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Inc., Siris Capital Group, LLC, Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., Universal Studios Japan, Polar Asset Management Partners Inc., Bear Creek Asset Management LLC, Z Capital Partners, L.L.C., Del Monte Foods Inc. Board of Directors, Faraday Future, QVT Financial, JHL Capital Group, Glendon Capital Management LP, Tribune Publishing Company, Castle Creek Capital LLC, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and certain of their affiliates, MIPS Holding Inc., Banc of California, Zelnick Media Capital, Sheridan Capital, Perseus Defense, Hello Alfred, and ICON Aircraft, Inc.

Vijay is a member of Sidley’s Chambers USA Band 1-ranked Nationwide Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market and Law360 Private Equity Group of the Year practice, and Chambers USA individually ranked Vijay for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2020–2025). In recognition of his work, Vijay was named as a “Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer, IFLR1000 named him a “Notable Practitioner” (2019–2025), and Super Lawyers named Vijay a “Rising Star” (2014–2022). The Century City Bar Association awarded Vijay “Transactional Lawyer of the Year” (2019) and he also led the 2025 M&A Atlas Global Deal of the Year, 2025 M&A Advisor “Industrials Deal of the Year”, the 2021 and 2023 M&A Advisor “Distressed M&A Deals of the Year”, as well as the 2019 Turnaround Atlas “Private Equity Acquisition of the Year” and the 2020 Turnaround Atlas “Chapter 11 Restructuring of the Year” deals. The Daily Journal selected Vijay as one of the “Top Lawyers Under 40” for 2018. He has been recognized as a “Next Generation Lawyer” for Private Equity Buyouts by the Legal 500 (2017) and a “Rising Star” for Private Equity by Law360 (2017).

Vijay is also an adjunct professor at Stanford Law School and served as senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2009 to 2011 as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law from 2014 to 2017 and at Berkeley Law from 2023 to 2026. He was a judicial intern for former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Vijay has published numerous articles related to law, business and finance in respected academic and practitioner journals, including the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Securities Regulation Law Journal, the New York Business Law Journal, The Real Estate Finance Journal, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, the Review of Banking & Financial Law as well as a book titled Corporate Acquisitions and Mergers in the United States (Wolters Kluwer ed. 2024) and the Chambers Practice Guide for Private Equity.

Vijay earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley. He is admitted to practice in the State of California and the State of New York.