Sami Nazif
Director
Mr. Nazif has over 15 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and has been a lead banker on key transactions in the healthcare, retail, specialty insurance, consumer, technology, and financial services sectors.
Prior to rejoining CapM, Mr. Nazif was a Senior Vice President at Citigroup within the Global Strategy and Corporate M&A group. While at Citi, Mr. Nazif was responsible for leading analysis and execution across Citi’s divestiture and acquisition activity.
Until 2022, Mr. Nazif was a Vice President at CapM, advising clients across a broad variety of sectors with a focus on M&A strategy and execution.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Nazif was a Business Analyst in the New York office of Texture, a digital magazine subscription platform based in Menlo Park, CA and backed by KKR, Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp., Rogers Communications and Time Inc. Texture was acquired by Apple and now constitutes the core of the Apple News product.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Economics, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (concentration in Finance and minors in Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Representative Transactions
- Acquisition of the Barclays American Airlines credit card portfolio
- Divestiture of Citi’s consumer banking franchise in Poland
- $1.7 billion acquisition of Versant Health by MetLife
- Sale of Solution Net Systems (a Datalogic company) to Architect Equity
- Acquisition of 6over6 to 1-800 Contacts
- Growth investment by Centerbridge into DentaQuest
- Sale of Community Eye Care (CEC) to Vision Service Plan (VSP)
- Sale of Visionworks to Vision Service Plan (VSP)
- Sale of SignatureMD to Blue Sea Capital
- Sale of Wikibuy to Capital One
- Acquisition of Liingo Eyewear by 1-800 Contacts
- Merger of Davis Vision with Superior Vision
- Sale of a minority stake in Visionworks to Centerbridge Partners
- Sale of 1-800 Contacts to AEA Investors
- Sale of Viva Optique, a subsidiary of HVHC (a Highmark company), to Marcolin
- Recapitalization of Vme Media by Cedel Holdings
- $47 million sale of a controlling stake in kenko.com to Rakuten
- $433 million sale of drugstore.com to Walgreen
- $250 million investment by Lavazza into Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
- Strategic alliance distribution partnership between Kenneth Cole and Jaytex
