About
Devony is a senior associate in our M&A practice in our Silicon Valley office focusing on corporate and financial transactions.
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- Apple Inc. in connection with numerous confidential M&A transactions and acquihires.
- Uber on its proposed $950m acquisition of Delivery Hero’s foodpanda Delivery Business in Taiwan and $300m investment in Delivery Hero.
- eBay on its:
- simultaneous acquisition of Goldin Auctions LLC, sale of the eBay Vault to Collectors Universe, Inc. and ongoing commercial relationship with Collectors
- acquisition of TCGplayer
- acquisition of Certilogo
- ServiceNow on its:
- proposed acquisition of Logik.io
- acquisition of Intella
- Japan Tobacco (JT) on its $2.4bn acquisition of Vector Group Ltd.
- Coupa on its $8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo.
- AeroClean Technologies, Inc in connection with its all-stock merger with Molekule, Inc.
- Holcim on its:
- $1.293bn acquisition of Duro-Last.
- $1.35bn acquisition of Herbert Malarkey.
- Euronav NV on its successful defense against a proxy contest launched by minority shareholder CMB in opposition of Euronav’s $4.2 billion merger with Frontline.
- StepStone GmbH / Appcast, Inc., subsidiaries of Axel Springer SE, on their acquisition of Bayard Advertising Agency, Inc.
- Axel Springer on its acquisition of Allbritton, including publications POLITICO, Protocol and POLITICO Europe (a joint venture with Allbritton).
- AstraZeneca on its $39 billion acquisition of Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
- KLX Energy Services on its stock-for-stock merger with Quintana Energy Services.
- Mast-Jagermeister on its investment in, and its exclusive distribution arrangements for, Teremana® tequila, the brand founded by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
- Waterland Private Equity on its contemplated acquisition of a 50% stake in The Cookware Company.
- Stanley Ventures on multiple equity investments in companies developing disruptive technologies, including Boxologic, Dynamic Green Products, Occo and Triditive.
Devony Schmidt
Senior Associate
San Francisco Office
One Bush Street
17th Floor
94104 San Francisco