Aly Love (f/k/a Simons) is a corporate partner and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Technology Groups. An established leader ...
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Experience
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Sell-Side
- Pixomondo in its acquisition by Sony.
- The Yes in its acquisition by Pinterest.
- Basepaws in its acquisition by Zoetis.
- Cider Security in its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks.
- Digit in its $212 million acquisition by Oportun.
- Integrate in its acquisition by Audax.
- Innovium in its $1.1 billion acquisition by Marvell.
- Datavant in its combination with CIOX at a transaction value of $7 billion.
- VenueNext in its $72 million acquisition by Shift4.
- Collective Medical Technologies in its acquisition by PointClickCare.
- Segment.io in its $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio.
- Portworx in its $370 million acquisition by Pure Storage.
- BlueJeans Network in its acquisition by Verizon.
- Fluidmesh in its acquisition by Cisco.
- Sanzaru Games in its acquisition by Facebook.
- Acquia in its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
- Opex Analytics in its acquisition by Llamasoft.
- Kixeye in its acquisition by Stillfront Group for up to $120 million.
- Webroot in its $618.5 million acquisition by Carbonite.
- Qualtrics in its $8 billion acquisition by SAP.
- Smyte in its acquisition by Twitter.
- WePay in its acquisition by Chase.
- Sencha in its acquisition by Idera.
- Trooly in its acquisition by AirBnb.
- True&Co. in its acquisition by PVH Corp.
- Startup Compass in its acquisition by Sage Software.
- Intelligize, Inc. in its acquisition by LexisNexis.
- LiveFyre in its acquisition by Adobe.
- Replay Technologies in its acquisition by Intel.
- MarketLive in its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
- Risesmart in its $100 million acquisition by Randstad Holding.
- Modest in its acquisition by PayPal.
- TellApart in its approximately $533 million acquisition by Twitter.
- Pentaho Corporation in its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation.
- Location Labs in its acquisition by AVG Technologies for cash and contingent consideration of up to $220 million.
- Citrus Lane in its acquisition by Care.com for cash, equity and contingent consideration of up to $48.6 million.
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Buy-Side
- Bobbie in its acquisition of Nature’s One.
- Miro in its acquisition of Around.
- Harness in its acquisition of Drone.io.
- Exabeam in its acquisition of Skyformation.
- Okta in its $52.5 million acquisition of Azuqua and its acquisition of ScaleFT.
- Wiser (fka Quad Analytix) in its acquisition of Wiser, Mobee, WorkIt, and Snooper.
- Singapore Telecommunications Limited / Amobee in their acquisitions of certain assets of Videology for $117 million and Turn for $310 million.
- Eventbrite in its acquisitions of Picatic and Ticketea.
- Qualtrics in its acquisition of Delighted.
- GoFundMe in its acquisitions of Crowdrise and YouCaring.
- Franklin Templeton Investments in its acquisition of Random Forest Capital.
- GoDaddy in multiple acquisitions.
- Tenere in its acquisition of Mountain Molding.
- Hortonworks in its acquisitions of XA Secure and SequenceIQ.
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Investor Representation
- DCM in the sale of multiple portfolio companies.
- Uncork in the sale of multiple portfolio companies.
- Reed Elsevier Ventures in the sale of multiple portfolio companies.
- An investor consortium including Transformation Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and certain other investors, in the sale of their portfolio company, PatientPing, to Appriss Health.
- An investor consortium including Sapphire Ventures, Rho Ventures, Tola Capital and Azure Capital, in the sale of their portfolio company, Convercent to OneTrust.
- Bain Capital in the sale of its portfolio company, Frame, to Nutanix.
- An investor consortium led by Bain Capital, in the $300 million sale of their portfolio company, evident.io, to Palo Alto Networks.
- August Capital in the sale of its portfolio company, Rocketmiles, to Priceline.
- An investor consortium including August Capital, Canaan Partner and Foundation Capital, who together own a substantial majority of the equity in Ebates, in the $1 billion sale of Ebates to Rakuten.
- Khosla Ventures in the sale of its portfolio companies, Virdia, to Stora Enso for cash and contingent consideration of up to $62 million, and Timeful, to Google.
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Other Representation
- Qatalyst Partners, as financial advisor to Matterport, a spatial data company, in the sale of Matterport to CoStar Group.
- TIAA/Nuveen, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Founders Circle Capital, White Owl Capital Partners and certain other investors in their venture and other investment transactions.
- Qualtrics in its $150 million financing.
- A large multinational media conglomerate in 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.
Education
- Johns Hopkins University, 2001, B.A.
- Villanova University School of Law, 2006, J.D.