Alessandra L. Simons

Ms. Simons has advised on the following transactions:

Sell-Side:

• Segment.io in its $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio 
• Portworx in its $370 million acquisition by Pure Storage 
• BlueJeans Network in connection with its acquisition by Verizon
• Fluidmesh in connection with its acquisition by Cisco (cross-border)
• Sanzaru Games in connection with its acquisition by Facebook 
• 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 (cross-border)
• Webroot in connection with its acquisition by Carbonite for $618.5 million
• Qualtrics in connection with its acquisition by SAP for $8 billion (cross-border)
• Smyte in connection with its acquisition by Twitter
• WePay in connection with its acquisition by Chase
• 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 (cross-border)
• Intelligize, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by LexisNexis
• LiveFyre in connection with its acquisition by Adobe
• Replay Technologies in connection with its acquisition by Intel (cross-border)
• 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
• Pentaho Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (cross-border)
• Location Labs in connection with its acquisition by AVG Technologies for cash and contingent consideration of up to $220 million (cross-border)
• Citrus Lane in connection with its acquisition by Care.com for cash, equity and contingent consideration of up to $48.6 million

Buy-Side:

• Harness in connection with its acquisition of Drone.io
• Exabeam in connection with its acquisition of Skyformation (cross-border)
• 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 (cross-border) and Mobee 
• Singapore Telecommunications Limited / Amobee with their acquisitions of certain assets of Videology for $117 million (cross-border) and Turn for $310 million (cross-border)
• Eventbrite in connection with its acquisitions of Picatic (cross-border) and Ticketea (cross-border)
• Qualtrics in connection with its acquisition of Delighted
• GoFundMe in connection with its acquisitions of Crowdrise and YouCaring
• Franklin Templeton Investments with its acquisition of Random Forest Capital 
• GoDaddy in connection with multiple acquisitions
• Tenere in connection with its acquisition of Mountain Molding 
• Hortonworks in connection with its acquisitions of XA Secure and SequenceIQ 

Investor Representation:

• Bain Capital in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Frame, to Nutanix
• An investor consortium led by Bain Capital, in connection with the sale of their portfolio company, evident.io, to Palo Alto Networks for $300 million
• August Capital in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Rocketmiles, to Priceline 
• 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 (cross-border)
• 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 (cross-border), and Timeful, to Google 

Other Representation:

• Qualtrics in connection with its $150 million financing 
• Multiple acquisitions, divestitures and investments for a large multi-national media conglomerate
• Other recent clients include General Galactic, Mass Appeal, Corvana, Kairos Aerospace, SafeBreach, DCM Ventures, Founders Circle Capital, White Owl Capital Partners, Inirv, Lit Motors and Foresite