Justin Smith

Justin Smith is a partner in the firm’s Business Law department and member of its Technology M&A practice. Justin advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, venture finance, and corporate governance with an emphasis in the semiconductor, e-commerce, blockchain, cybersecurity, marketing tech, and life sciences industries. His cross-border M&A experience includes transactions involving China, Japan, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Canada, Mexico, the UK, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany. He also has significant experience in internet governance and complex commercial arrangements.

Notable transactions include:

• FalconX’s acquisition of Arbelos Markets
• FalconX’s acquisition of Monarq Asset Management
• Miro’s acquisition of a video-conferencing app company
• Miro’s acquisition of Cardinal
• Miro’s acquisition of Uizard
• Miro’s acquisition of Freehand from InVision
• Deliverr’s sale to Shopify for $2.1 billion
• Innovium’s sale to Marvell Technology for $1.1 billion
• Exabeam’s merger with LogRhythm
• Neural Magic’s sale to Red Hat
• Menlo Security’s acquisition of Votiro
• Modulus Labs’ sale to Tools for Humanity
• Uniswap’s acquisition of Genie
• Klarna’s acquisition of Inspirock
• Illumina’s acquisition of Partek
• Herophilus’ sale to Genentech
• Envato’s sale to Shutterstock
• ABACI’s sale to Accordion
• Ananki’s sale to Intel
• Sora Finance’s sale to Flourish
• Singulatiry 6’s sale to Daybreak Games
• Postal.io’s sale to Sendoso
• Synaptics’ acquisition of DSP Group
• Linear Technology’s sale to Analog Devices for $14.3 billion*
• Oclaro’s sale to Lumentum for $1.8 billion*
• Cylance’s sale to Blackberry for $1.4 billion*
• TDK’s acquisition of InvenSense for $1.3 billion*
• Ambry Genetics’ sale to Konica Minolta for $1.0 billion*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Justin was most recently an attorney at Jones Day.

Justin has been recognized by Super Lawyers in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 as a mergers and acquisitions "Rising Star" for Southern California.

Co-Author, JAG: Maintaining the Front Lines of Justice, Lawyers in your Living Room! Law on Television, Michael Asimow, ed., ABA Publishing, 2009