Aly represents technology and life sciences companies of all stages of growth on complex M&A transactions. She also advises growth equity and venture funds on domestic and cross-border investments, including structuring and executing secondary sales and other private liquidity programs.
With deep expertise advising both buyers and sellers, Aly is a highly regarded member of the tech M&A community and is ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA.
She sits on the advisory board for Illumyn Impact, a not-for-profit that accelerates diversity on for-profit boards by bridging the gap between board opportunities and talented women ready for board service.
Sell-Side
- Pixomondo on its acquisition by Sony.
- The Yes on its acquisition by Pinterest.
- Basepaws on its acquisition by Zoetis.
- Cider Security on its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks.
- Digit on its $212 million acquisition by Oportun.
- Integrate on its acquisition by Audax.
- Innovium on its $1.1 billion acquisition by Marvell.
- Datavant on its combination with CIOX at a transaction value of $7 billion.
- VenueNext on its $72 million acquisition by Shift4.
- Collective Medical Technologies on its acquisition by PointClickCare.
- io on its $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio.
- Portworx on its $370 million acquisition by Pure Storage.
- BlueJeans Network on its acquisition by Verizon.
- Fluidmesh on its acquisition by Cisco.
- Sanzaru Games on its acquisition by Facebook.
- Acquia on its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
- Opex Analytics on its acquisition by Llamasoft.
- Kixeye on its acquisition by Stillfront for up to $120 million.
- Webroot on its $618.5 million acquisition by Carbonite.
- Qualtrics on its $8 billion acquisition by SAP.
- Smyte on its acquisition by Twitter.
- WePay on its acquisition by Chase.
- Sencha on its acquisition by Idera.
- Trooly on its acquisition by Airbnb.
- True&Co. on its acquisition by PVH.
- Startup Compass on its acquisition by Sage Software.
- Intelligize on its acquisition by LexisNexis.
- LiveFyre on its acquisition by Adobe.
- Replay Technologies on its acquisition by Intel.
- MarketLive on its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
- Risesmart on its $100 million acquisition by Randstad.
- Modest on its acquisition by PayPal.
- TellApart on its approximately $533 million acquisition by Twitter.
- Pentaho on its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems.
- Location Labs on its acquisition by AVG Technologies for cash and contingent consideration of up to $220 million.
- Citrus Lane on its acquisition by Care.com for cash, equity and contingent consideration of up to $48.6 million.
Buy-Side
- Roku on its acquisition of Frndly TV, a subscription streaming service.
- DoubleVerify, a Providence Equity Partners portfolio company and leading software platform for digital media measurement and analytics, on its acquisition of Rockerbox.
- Presidio, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Contender Solutions, an Elite ServiceNow partner.
- Bobbie on its acquisition of Nature’s One.
- Miro on its acquisition of Around.
- Harness on its acquisition of Drone.io.
- Exabeam on its acquisition of Skyformation.
- Okta on its $52.5 million acquisition of Azuqua and its acquisition of ScaleFT.
- Wiser (f/k/a Quad Analytix) on its acquisition of Wiser, Mobee, WorkIt, and Snooper.
- Singtel/ Amobee on their acquisitions of certain assets of Videology for $117 million and Turn for $310 million.
- Eventbrite on its acquisitions of Picatic and Ticketea.
- Qualtrics on its acquisition of Delighted.
- GoFundMe on its acquisitions of Crowdrise and YouCaring.
- Franklin Templeton Investments on its acquisition of Random Forest Capital.
- GoDaddy on multiple acquisitions.
- Tenere on its acquisition of Mountain Molding.
- Hortonworks on its acquisitions of XA Secure and SequenceIQ.
Investor Representation
- DCM on the sale of multiple portfolio companies.
- Uncork on the sale of multiple portfolio companies.
- Reed Elsevier Ventures on the sale of multiple portfolio companies.
- An investor consortium including Transformation Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and certain other investors, on the sale of their portfolio company, PatientPing, to Appriss Health.
- An investor consortium including Sapphire Ventures, Rho Ventures, Tola Capital and Azure Capital, on the sale of their portfolio company, Convercent to OneTrust.
- Bain Capital on the sale of its portfolio company, Frame, to Nutanix.
- An investor consortium led by Bain Capital, on the $300 million sale of their portfolio company, evident.io, to Palo Alto Networks.
- August Capital on the sale of its portfolio company, Rocketmiles, to Priceline.
- An investor consortium including August Capital, Canaan Partners and Foundation Capital, who together own a substantial majority of the equity in Ebates, on the $1 billion sale of Ebates to Rakuten.
- Khosla Ventures on the sale of its portfolio companies, Virdia, to Stora Enso for cash and contingent consideration of up to $62 million, and Timeful, to Google.
Other Representation
- Qatalyst Partners, as financial advisor to Matterport, a spatial data company, on the sale of Matterport to CoStar Group.
- TIAA/Nuveen, CPP Investments, Founders Circle Capital, White Owl Capital Partners and certain other investors on their venture and other investment transactions.
- Qualtrics on its $150 million financing.
- A large multinational media conglomerate on multiple acquisitions, divestitures and investments.
- Other recent clients include General Galactic, Upwave, Mass Appeal, Corvana, Kairos Aerospace, SafeBreach, Founders Circle Capital, DCM Ventures, White Owl Capital Partners, and Foresite.

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