EXPERIENCE

Morgan's experience includes advising:

Transportation/Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

• An autonomous vehicle technology company in several complex long-term agreements with strategic investors to supply and purchase vehicles, license technology, and operate and service vehicles for its future fleet
• Hyundai Motors in its acquisition of robotics design company Boston Dynamics, valued at US$1.1 billion
• Hyundai Motors in its innovative partnership with Aptiv to develop and commercialize autonomous vehicle technology
• A leading multinational automotive manufacturer in developing and implementing its electronic vehicle mobile application
• A publicly traded aerospace and defense company in strategic outsourcing agreements with third-party implementation and services providers for certain inventory management and data warehousing services
• Rivian Automotive, an electric vehicle manufacturer, in one of the largest technology IPOs to date
• A self-driving taxi company in several agreements related to developing a proprietary semiconductor chip and associated technology for use in its self-driving cars
• SiriusXM in procuring and launching several satellites
• Virgin Galactic in its de-SPAC merger with Social Capital Hedosophia
• Virgin Orbit in a de-SPAC merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II

Fintech

• Macquarie in US$500 million financing for Lambda
• Ares Management in its acquisition of Black Creek Group   
• An investor in open API banking platform Belvo’s US$43 million Series A financing
• A large global bank in an agreement to implement a worldwide trading and risk management platform
• A large global bank in negotiating, developing, and implementing a worldwide currency trading platform
• A leading big-data and market structure technology provider in negotiating and implementing a consolidated audit trail plan processor agreement pursuant to SEC Rule 613
• A leading capital markets technology firm specializing in distributed ledger infrastructure in negotiating and implementing a trading network with multiple global investment banks
• A leading fixed income, derivatives, and electronic trading platform provider in contractual arrangements with customers, partners, and vendors
• A machine-learning technology startup in drafting form customer agreements for its forward analysis and hedging platform
• A startup managing and operating cryptocurrency trading solutions in contractual arrangements with partners, vendors, and banks
• Tagomi, a leading crypto brokerage platform, in its acquisition by Coinbase

Life Sciences and Healthcare

• Chardan Healthcare Acquisition 2 in its merger with Renovacor
• DXC Technology, an end-to-end IT services and solutions company, in the sales of its state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital and its global healthcare business to Dedalus    
• Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in several large-scale multinational commercial transactions
• Siemens Healthineers in its acquisition of Varian Medical Systems, a US maker of devices and software for cancer treatments, valued at US$16.4 billion
• Talkspace in its merger with a SPAC sponsored by Hudson Executive Capital to form the only publicly traded pure play virtual behavioral health company

Other High-Profile Matters

• IMCO in its US$250 million investment in Scala Data Centers
• A large technology company in its sale of several data centers in the US and South America 
• Silver Lake as the leader, along with DigitalBridge Group, Inc. of a US$9.2 billion equity investment in Vantage Data Centers
• Multiple maritime shipping companies in creating a joint venture with IBM to implement and maintain a blockchain solution to support global logistics