Ms. Simons has advised on the following transactions:
- 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
- Eventbrite in connection with its acquisition of Ticketea
- WePay in connection with its acquisition by Chase
- Franklin Templeton Investments with its acquisition of Random Forest Capital
- Wiser (fka Quad Analytix) in connection with its acquisition of Wiser and Mobee
- Sencha in connection with its acquisition by Idera
- Trooly in connection with its acquisition by AirBnb
- Singapore Telecommunications Limited / Amobee in its acquisition of Turn, Inc. for $310 million
- 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 LexisNexi
- 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, Founders Circle Capital, Columbus Nova Technology Partners and White Owl Capital Partners
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Goodwin, Ms. Simons was an associate in the New York and San Francisco offices of Hogan Lovells US LLP.