Gunderson Dettmer served as lead counsel to Compass in $400 million Series F financing round.
UiPath, a robotic process automation software, closed a Series C financing of $225 million with a $3 billion valuation. Sequoia Capital and CapitalG, Alphabet's investment arm, lead the round.
Gunderson Dettmer was recognized for a “Finance & Transactional Impact Deal of the Year” at the 2018 Euromoney LMG Life Sciences Awards. Gunderson Dettmer won the award for its representation of ARMO BioSciences, a late-stage immuno-oncology company, in its $1.6 billion sale to Eli Lilly & Company. Gunderson Dettmer also congratulates Lilly for being shortlisted for the Financial & Corporate In-House Team of the Year award at the same event.
Gunderson Dettmer's Silicon Valley office has relocated to a newly-constructed building in downtown Redwood City, California. The new space reflects evolving work styles, efficient design and new collaboration tools to fit the firm's culture and is designed to appeal to lawyers and clients alike.
Gunderson Dettmer is acting as legal advisor to Cornershop, a leading online marketplace for on-demand delivery from retailers in Mexico and Chile, in its $225 million acquisition by Walmart.
Best Lawyers named twelve Gunderson Dettmer partners to its 2019 peer-reviewed list of the most respected lawyers in their focus areas. Ross L. Burningham, Scott C. Dettmer, Steven R. Franklin, Jay K. Hachigian, James L. Hauser, Sharon J. Hendricks, Andrew Y. Luh, Daniel E. O’Connor, Brooks Stough, Jeffrey C. Thacker, and Thomas F. Villeneuve were all named to Best Lawyers in the United States.
Gunderson Dettmer has been named a finalist in four categories for the 17th Annual M&A Advisor Awards: Corporate/Strategic Deal of the Year ($100M-$250M); Private Equity Deal of the Year ($10M-$50M); M&A Deal of the Year ($25M-$50M) and Information Technology Deal of the Year ($10-$50M).
Gunderson Dettmer announced today that top IPO lawyer Jeffrey Vetter has joined the firm as a partner and will chair its public offerings/public companies practice.
Gunderson Dettmer is acting as legal advisor to Opcity, a market leading real estate technology platform, in its $210 million acquisition by News Corp's subsidiary, Move, Inc., operator of realtor.com.
Gunderson Dettmer acted as counsel to Oscar in its recent $375 million financing by CapitalG, the late-stage growth venture capital fund financed by Alphabet Inc.
Gunderson Dettmer is acting as legal advisor to Cartiva, Inc., a private orthopedic medical device company focused on the treatment of osteoarthritis, in its $435 million acquisition by Wright Medical Group N.V.
Gunderson Dettmer represented Akouos Inc in its $50 million Series A financing round led by NEA with participation from 5AM and Partners Innovation.
With 212 venture deals to its credit in Q2 2018, Gunderson Dettmer is again ranked “most active law firm globally” in PitchBook’s Global Venture Capital League Tables.
Gunderson Dettmer acted as legal advisor to Duo Security, the leading provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered through the cloud, in its $2.35 billion acquisition by Cisco.
Gunderson Dettmer acted as legal advisor to SpringCM, a leading cloud-based document generation and contract lifecycle management software company, in its $220 million acquisition by DocuSign. In a definitive agreement announced today, the transaction will further accelerate DocuSign’s broadening of its solution beyond e-signature to the rest of the agreement process—from preparing to signing, acting-on, and managing agreements.
As required under the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act enacted in May 2018 (the “2018 Act”), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued final rules on July 18th to increase the disclosure threshold from $5 million to $10 million for issuances of securities in reliance on Rule 701 under the Securities Act of 1933.
Gunderson Dettmer advised Natera, Inc. in a follow-on public offering of 5,175,000 shares at the price to the public of $20.00 per share for a total of $103,500,000 in aggregate gross proceeds.
Gunderson Dettmer represented AlienVault in its acquisition by AT&T.
Gunderson Dettmer advised the underwriters on Domo, Inc.’s initial public offering of 10,580,000 shares at the price to the public of $21.00 per share for a total of $222,180,000 in aggregate gross proceeds.
Gunderson Dettmer served as lead counsel to DataMinr in its $392 million Series E financing round with participation from Morgan Stanley’s Tactical Value Fund, Valor Equity Partners, MSD Capital, Declaration Partners, Moore Strategic Ventures, Vulcan Capital, the Pritzker Family Business Interests as well as existing investors Fidelity Investments, Institutional Venture Partners and Goldman Sachs.
Gunderson Dettmer served as lead counsel to NginX Inc in its $43 million Series C financing round led by Goldman Sachs with participation from NEA, StoneBridge and Broad Street.
Gunderson Dettmer served as lead counsel to WindMIL Therapeutics in its $32.5 million Series B financing round led by Qiming Venture Partners USA with participation from Medivate Partners, Camden Partners Nexus, Domain Associates and FOXKISER.
Gunderson Dettmer announced today that Malcolm B. Nicholls III will join its industry-leading fund formation practice, where he will be a partner resident in the Boston office. A highly-respected practitioner, Malcolm brings over 20 years of experience representing venture capital and private equity fund managers and investment advisors globally on a wide range of issues, including formations, secondary transactions, internal governance, and divestments and distributions.
Gunderson Dettmer represented Cohesity in its latest $250 million Series D financing round, led by Softbank Vision Fund as well as Cisco Investments, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, early investor Sequoia Capital and others.
In this video, DataGrail interviews Anna Westfelt, an associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group who focuses on privacy and data security issues. She provides insights on why understanding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is critical for all businesses. GDPR is effective May 25, 2018.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is conducting a mandatory survey that imposes reporting requirements on any U.S. business entity (including a fund, general partner entity or management company) in which a foreign person directly or indirectly held a voting interest of 10 percent or more at any time during the 2017 fiscal year.
The Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act (the “Act”), a comprehensive package of legislation aimed at combating sexual harassment in the workplace and strengthening New York City’s existing anti-sexual harassment laws, was signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio on May 9, 2018. In lockstep with New York City’s new sexual harassment law, Governor Cuomo signed into law the New York State Legislature’s anti-sexual harassment legislation in the state’s 2019 budget.
Gunderson Dettmer acted as legal advisor to ARMO BioSciences (ARMO) in its $1.6 billion acquisition by Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly). In a definitive agreement announced today, the all-cash transaction will bolster Lilly’s immune-oncology program through the addition of ARMO’s lead product, pegilodecakin, which has demonstrated clinical benefit in multiple tumor types.
Gunderson Dettmer served as lead counsel to Robinhood in its $363 million Series D financing round led by DST Global with participation from new investors Iconiq, Capital G, Sequoia Capital, and Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors included NEA and Thrive Capital.
Gunderson Dettmer acted as international and M&A counsel to Flipkart in a $16 billion deal that will make Walmart Inc. its largest shareholder. Flipkart, which has been a client since 2011, is one of India’s largest e-commerce marketplaces and includes group companies Flipkart, Myntra, Jabong, and PhonePe. Launched in 2007, Flipkart has enabled millions of customers, sellers, merchants, and small businesses to be a part of India's e-commerce revolution, offering over 80 million products across 80+ categories.
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