Select technology M&A experience:

• Salesforce on its $1.33 billion acquisition of cloud and mobile software provider Vlocity.
• Salesforce on its acquisition of B2B commerce platform CloudCraze.
• Splunk on its $1.05 billion cash and stock acquisition of cloud monitoring leader SignalFX.
• Splunk on its $350 million cash and stock acquisition of Phantom Cyber.
• Cielo on its $670 million acquisition of a California-based global payment solutions provider.
• HP Inc. on the global sale of certain software assets to OpenText involving over 25 non-US jurisdictions.
• HP Inc. on its sale of a highly regulated subsidiary.
• SEGA Networks on its acquisition of Demiurge Studios.
• Symantec on its acquisition of VPN provider SurfEasy.
• Symantec on its acquisition of benefit enrollment provider Excelsior Companies.
• Cooliris, a photo app-maker startup, on its sale to Yahoo!
• Provigent, an Israel-based semiconductor company, on its $335 million sale to Broadcom.
• A non-US company on its $170 million acquisition of a California-based software company.
• Skype on its acquisition of several emerging companies.

Select life sciences M&A experience:

• AstraZeneca on its pending $39 billion acquisition of Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
• Fresenius Helios on its $550 million acquisition of leading international fertility company Eugin Group from NMC Health.
• Foundation Medicine on its acquisition of precision oncology company Lexent Bio.
• Hoffmann La-Roche and its affiliates on the $1.7 billion cash acquisition of publicly-traded cancer therapy company Ignyta.
• Genentech on its $1.725 billion acquisition of biotechnology breast cancer treatment company Seragon Pharmaceuticals.
• Hoffmann La-Roche and its affiliates on the collaboration and option to acquire early stage MS development program Versant incubator Inception 5.
• Novira Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical HBV treatment company, on its sale to Johnson & Johnson.
• Roche Molecular Systems on its $125 million acquisition of DNA sequencing company Genia Technologies with up to $225 million in contingent-based payments.
• Roche Molecular Systems on its acquisition of genomic analysis company BINA Technologies.
• A China-based pharmaceutical company on its $95 million purchase of biological compounds and other assets of a San Francisco-based research company.
• A San Francisco-based R&D company on its acquisition of a human antibody producing modified rat platform.

Select joint venture experience:

• The Lagunitas Brewing Company on its 50:50 joint venture with Heineken.
• UniGroup, a global transportation company, in board advice related to structuring and implementing technology joint ventures in Silicon Valley.
• UniGroup on its first technology joint venture.
• Monsanto Company on its life sciences joint venture with Pairwise Plants to advance agriculture R&D leveraging gene-editing technology.
• Monsanto Company on the formation of Innovative Seed Solutions, a life sciences joint venture with Remington focused on sorghum development, including related joint ventures in Mexico and Brazil.
• PayPal on a proposed cross-border technology joint venture related to assets valued at more than $1 billion.
• A state-owned oil and gas company on legal arrangements related to $5.8 billion in assets with two Italian energy companies.
• Experian on its technology joint venture and commercial arrangements with FICO.
• Renaissance Capital on its joint venture with Royal Bank of Scotland to issue and market currency, interest rate and credit derivative products in Russia and Eastern Europe, and in the subsequent termination of said joint venture following RBS’s acquisition of ABN Amro.
• Viking River Cruises on a joint venture related to the operation of Russian river vessels.
• Immoeast on the restructuring of a €1 billion cross-border joint venture.
• Goldman Sachs on a joint venture to buy and sell consumer debt.

Admissions

• California
• New York

Education

• Columbia School of Law, J.D., 2004 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  Senior Editor, Columbia Law Review
• Harvard University, B.A. in Biochemical Sciences, 1999