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  1. Love Aly
San Francisco
Aly Love
Partner, Co-Head of US Technology and Life Sciences M&A
aly.love@freshfields.com
San Francisco: +1 415 530 0165
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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.

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Mergers and acquisitions
Private equity
Corporate advisory and governance
Technology
Life sciences
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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.

Aly Love
Partner, Co-Head of US Technology and Life Sciences M&A
aly.love@freshfields.com

T +1 415 530 0165

San Francisco Office

One Bush Street

17th Floor

94104 San Francisco
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