Paula M. Nagarajan

Paula Nagarajan is a partner in the firm’s Technology and Life Sciences groups, and M&A/Corporate Governance practice. She works with and advises companies in all stages of growth, with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. Paula’s practice focuses on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including representing both domestic and foreign entities, board of directors, venture capital firms and private equity sponsors in public and private company transactions, tender offers, joint ventures and general corporate matters. She is a member of the firm’s Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.

Paula has advised on the following transactions:

• NXYZ in connection with its sale to Snowflake
• The major investors of Wolt in its sale to DoorDash
• 8th Wall in its sale to Niantic
• LibertyX in its sale to NCR
• SS&C in its acquisition of MineralWare
• Andreessen Horowitz in various investments, including in BetterLeap, Codi, Nash, Raid Base, Rasa, Rutter, Scribe Therapeutics, Tellus, and Ventrilo
• Redmile Group in various investments, including Star Therapeutics, Clear Labs, Healthmine and Mammoth Biosciences
• Voltron Data in connection with its acquisition of Ursa
• Lyft in connection with its acquisition of Halo Cars
• Lyft in connection with its acquisition of Flexdrive
• Aporeto, a machine identity-based microsegmentation company, in its sale to Palo Alto Networks
• Quandl, in connection with its sale to Nasdaq
• Browserstack in connection with its acquisition of Percy
• HSB Group, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of relayr
• Snowflake in connection with its acquisition of Numeracy
• Rubrik in connection with its acquisition of Datos
• PayPal in connection with its acquisition of Simility
• Xpressdocs in its sale to The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
• Xpressdocs in connection with its acquisition of Amazingmail, an Arizona based provider of direct mail solutions
• TellApart in connection with its acquisition by Twitter for approximately $533 million
• Codenomicon in connection with its acquisition by Synopsys
• Thoma Bravo in connection with its acquisition of iPipeline
• Thoma Bravo in connection with its acquisition of Infogix
• iPipeline in connection with its acquisition of Resonant
• Infogix in connection with its acquisition of Data3Sixty, Data Clairvoyance Group and Lavastorm
• August Capital in connection with the sale of various of its portfolio companies, including Carvana, Griddable, Luxtera, Stitch, IAS, Spacious, Xirrus, AppFormix, Threatmetrix and WePay
• True Ventures in connection with the sale of its portfolio companies, Namely, Solvvy and Veniam
• Khosla Ventures in connection with the sale of its portfolio companies, Parstream GmbH to Cisco Systems and Timeful to Google
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in connection with the sale of a portfolio company, TiDAL Systems to Micron Technology
• Ironman in connection with its acquisition of Vineman Triathlon Events
• Intercom in connection with its $35 million Series C financing, $50 million Series C-1 financing and $125 million Series D financing
• A leading data service company in connection with its internal reorganization

Prior to joining Goodwin, Paula was an associate in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend.