Ms. Simons has advised on the following transactions:
- Acquia in connection with its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners
- Opex Analytics in connection with its acquisition by Llamasoft
- Kixeye in connection with its acquisition by Stillfront Group for up to $120 million
- Exabeam in connection with its acquisition of Skyformation
- Webroot in connection with its acquisition by Carbonite for $618.5 million
- Qualtrics in connection with its acquisition by SAP for $8 billion
- Okta in connection with its acquisition of Azuqua for $52.5 million and its acquisition of ScaleFT
- Wiser (fka Quad Analytix) in connection with its acquisition of Wiser and Mobee
- Bain Capital in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Frame, to Nutanix
- Singapore Telecommunications Limited / Amobee with their acquisitions of certain assets of Videology for $117 million and Turn for $310 million
- Eventbrite in connection with its acquisitions of Picatic and Ticketea
- Smyte in connection with its acquisition by Twitter
- An investor consortium led by Bain Capital, in connection with sale of their portfolio company, evident.io to Palo Alto Networks for $300 million
- Qualtrics in connection with its acquisition of Delighted
- GoFundMe in connection with its acquisitions of Crowdrise and YouCaring
- WePay in connection with its acquisition by Chase
- Franklin Templeton Investments with its acquisition of Random Forest Capital
- Sencha in connection with its acquisition by Idera
- Trooly in connection with its acquisition by AirBnb
- True&Co. in connection with its acquisition by PVH Corp
- Startup Compass in connection with its acquisition by Sage Software
- Intelligize, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by LexisNexis
- GoDaddy in connection with multiple acquisitions
- LiveFyre in connection with its acquisition by Adobe
- Replay Technologies in connection with its acquisition by Intel
- MarketLive in connection with its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners
- Risesmart in connection with its acquisition by Randstad Holding for $100 million
- Modest in connection with its acquisition by PayPal
- TellApart in connection with its acquisition by Twitter for approximately $533 million
- Tenere in connection with its acquisition of Mountain Molding
- August Capital in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Rocketmiles, to Priceline
- Pentaho Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
- Qualtrics in connection with its $150 million financing
- An investor consortium comprised of August Capital, Canaan Partner and Foundation Capital, who together own a substantial majority of the equity in Ebates, in connection with the sale of Ebates to Rakuten for $1 billion
- Location Labs in connection with its acquisition by AVG Technologies for cash and contingent consideration of up to $220 million
- Citrus Lane in connection with its acquisition by Care.com for cash, equity and contingent consideration of up to $48.6 million
- Hortonworks in connection with its acquisitions of XA Secure and SequenceIQ
- Khosla Ventures in connection with the sale of its portfolio companies, Virdia, to Stora Enso for cash and contingent consideration of up to $62 million, and Timeful, to Google
- Multiple acquisitions, divestitures and investments for a large multi-national media conglomerate
- Other recent clients include Mass Appeal, Corvana, Kairos Aerospace, DCM Ventures, Founders Circle Capital, White Owl Capital Partners, Inirv, Lit Motors and Foresite
Professional Experience
Ms. Simons serves as the Co-Chair of the San Francisco chapter of Goodwin’s women’s initiative, Women@Goodwin. Prior to joining Goodwin, Ms. Simons was an associate in the New York and San Francisco offices of Hogan Lovells US LLP.