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Experience
Venture Capital and Private Equity Investments
SiteOwl Series Seed Financing
Represented SiteOwl, a company providing a software platform to manage security systems, in its Series Seed financing.
LiveOak Venture Partners Series Seed Financing of ClosingLock
Represented LiveOak Venture Partners as the lead investor in its Series Seed investment in ClosingLock, a fintech company focused on wire fraud prevention for the real estate industry.
TestFit Series A Financing
Represented TestFit, the provider of a software as a service (SaaS)-based solution for real estate developers and architects, in its Series A financing led by Parkway Venture Capital and Prologis.
LiveOak Venture Partners Series Seed Financing of Backflip
Represented LiveOak Venture Partners as co-lead in the Series Seed financing for Backflip, a provider of technology solutions for real estate investors.
Homeward Series B Financing
Represented the company’s founder and CEO, Tim Heyl, Tim Heyl, regarding his personal interests in connection with Homeward’s Series B funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
RealWork Labs Series Seed Financing
Represented RealWork Labs, a software company, in its Series Seed financing from LiveOak Venture Partners.
Bloomfire Major Growth Investment From Primus Capital
Represented the management team of Bloomfire, a company offering web-based software applications, in connection with its growth equity investment transaction from Primus Capital.
LF BiOenergy Growth Equity Financing
Represented the company in growth equity financing received from Cresta Funds.
LiveOak Venture Partners Series Seed Financing of Intrigue
Represented LiveOak Venture Partners as the lead investor in its Series Seed investment in Intrigue (subsequently acquired by FireEye).
Lightbox OOH Video Network Investment
Advised Lightbox in connection with its majority investment from Medios Cattri.
One Drop Financing and Development Transactions With Bayer
Advised InforMed Data Systems, Inc. d/b/a One Drop in its $40M Series B Preferred Stock financing led by Bayer and its subsequent $34.7M Series C Preferred Stock financing and concurrent development and commercialization agreement with Bayer, which provides an aggregate of $64M in development fees and potential milestone payments.
RidersShare Series A Financing
Initially engaged to represent LiveOak Venture Partners for RidersShare’s Series A financing, but subsequently retained as counsel for RidersShare, which operates a platform for peer-to-peer motorcycle rentals.
Private Equity Investment in Vapor IO*
Represented Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge® platform and Kinetic Edge Exchange™ (KEX), the first nationwide platform for edge colocation and networking services, in its private equity investment of $90 million from Berkshire Partners and Crown Castle, as well as earlier rounds of financing including investments from Goldman Sachs.
Private Equity Investment in ForeFlight*
Represented ForeFlight, a Texas-based provider of flight planning and navigation software for pilots, flight operations, government, military, and airlines, in its private equity investment from Sumeru Equity Partners.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sweet River Company
Represented Sweet River in the sale of its honey and bee-keeping business to Sweet Harvest Foods Holdings.
Applied Optoelectronics Divestiture
Served as U.S. counsel for Applied Optoelectronics in connection with its anticipated divestiture of Chinese manufacturing facilities and certain assets related to its transceiver business for $150 million.
Beezy Acquisition by Appspace
Represented Beezy, the leading digital workplace and intelligent intranet solution, in its acquisition by Appspace Inc., a workplace software company, to create the first unified workplace experience platform.
Telestax Acquisition by Mavenir
Represented LiveOak Venture Partners as the lead investor in Telestax, a leading global communications platform as a service (CPaaS) enablement and application provider to the communications industry, in connection with the sale of the company to Mavenir.
Shield GEO Acquisition by Velocity Global
Represented Shield GEO, a global employment organization, in connection with its acquisition by private-equity-backed Velocity Global.
CryoLife, Inc. Acquisition of JOTEC AG*
Represented CryoLife, Inc., a medical device and tissue processing company focused on cardiac and vascular surgery, in its $225 million acquisition of JOTEC AG, a German-based, privately held developer of endovascular stent grafts and cardiac and vascular surgical grafts.
CryoLife, Inc. Option to Acquire Endospan*
Advised CryoLife in connection with its distribution and credit facility agreements and option agreement to purchase Endospan, an Israel-based, privately held developer of an endovascular stent graft system.
Acquisition by a Spatial Computing Company*
Represented leading venture capital-funded nanopatterning systems and solutions startup in a first-of-its-kind acquisition by a spatial computing company.
Sale of Molecular Imprints*
Represented Molecular Imprints, a venture capital-funded nanopatterning systems and solutions company, in its sale to Canon, Inc. of Tokyo, Japan.
Capital Markets
- Advised issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and follow-on offerings, including work on public offerings by Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.*
- Subsequently represented Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. on corporate governance and public reporting requirements.
*Prior experience
