James A. Hutchinson

Mr. Hutchinson’s work for private equity, growth equity and venture capital funds and their portfolio companies includes representing:

• DST Global in its growth equity investments in Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, Twitter, Alibaba, Box, Arista, Spotify, Funding Circle, Houzz, WISH, Zalondo, LendingClub, DraftKings, Robinhood and Nubank
• Ridge Capital Partners in its leveraged buyout of L.A.T. Sportswear, Rock River Environmental Services and Zamma Corporation
• Halifax in its leveraged buyout of XL Associates, Inc. and Promptcare, Inc.
• Thoma Bravo in its investment in Van Wagner Communications and leveraged buyouts of WebClients.net and Viecore
• MissionPoint Capital Partners in its leveraged buyout of Hannon Armstrong Capital and growth equity investments in Voltaix, LLC and Amonix, Inc.
• Twilio in a company-led private tender offer for securities held by its employees
• SilverLake Capital in a third-party private tender offer for shares of Zynga and Alibaba
• Atlassian in a company-led private tender offer for securities held by its employees and early investors
• Benchmark in a third-party private tender offer for shares of Uber
• Accel Partners in third-party private tender offers and secondary transactions in Arista, CartoDB, and PagerDuty
• Sequoia Capital in its investment Github and Robinhood
• Various mutual funds with investments in private technology companies including Twitter, Coupang, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Ant Financial
• WisdomTree Investments Inc. with a variety exchange traded fund product development joint ventures and the acquisition of Boost ETP and ETF Securities
• Various sell-side representations including the sale of Crucial Security, Inc. to Harris Corporation; Watkins & Shepard Trucking, Inc. to Schneider National Carriers, Inc.; Rock River Environmental Services, Inc. to Waste Connections, Inc.; and Human Arc Corporation to Centauri Health Solutions LLC.