Daniel Scott Hoffman
Partner
Boston
daniel.hoffman@lw.com
+1.617.880.4537
PRACTICES
- Emerging Companies & Growth
- Israel Practice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
INDUSTRIES
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Technology
EDUCATION
- JD, Boston University School of Law,
cum laude - BS, Cornell University,
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Dan Hoffman advises emerging and late-stage technology and life sciences companies throughout their life cycle, including on venture financings and mergers and acquisitions.
Dan advises companies on:
- Early-stage formation and strategy
- Seed, venture and growth financings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Employment matters
- Equity incentives
- Securities law compliance
- Corporate governance matters
- University spin-outs
He draws on extensive company-side experience and a sophisticated sense of the technology industry landscape to provide founders and management with commercial and actionable advice.
Dan ranked best in class for Massachusetts Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment by Chambers USA 2017.
Dan was named an Up and Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2021, a distinction provided to rising stars of the local legal community.
Dan was recognized by Legal 500 in 2021 as “a terrific advisor” and an “unbelievable hard worker [that] understands and simplifies very complex problems.”
EXPERIENCE
Dan’s representative work includes advising:
Venture Capital Financings
- Affera, a medical device company, in its US$75 million Series C financing
- ASAPP, an artificial intelligence software company, in multiple venture capital financings, including its US$120 million Series C financing
- Drizly, an e-commerce company, in multiple venture capital financings
- Heavy.ai, a data analytics company, in multiple venture capital financings
- Impact, a partnership management platform, in its US$150 million financing
- Liquid AI, an artificial intelligence company, in its US$38 million seed financing
- Mainstay Medical, a medical device company, in its US$108 million financing
- Omio, an online travel company, in multiple venture capital financings
- Portal Instruments, a medical device company, in multiple venture capital financings
- pulseData, an artificial intelligence and machine learning kidney care platform, in its US$16 million Series A financing
- Nasuni, a file data service company, in its US$60 million growth equity financing
- RapidDeploy, a mapping and analytics platform for public safety, in its US$34 million growth financing
- Rent the Runway, an e-commerce company, in its Series D financing
- Sense Labs, a smart home sensor company, in its US$100 million Series C financing
- Unlearn.ai, an artificial intelligence company, in its US$50 million Series B financing
- Verve, a wearable robotics company, in multiple venture capital financings
- VillageMD in its US$1 billion investment and US$5.2 billion investment from, and commercial partnership with, Walgreens
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Area 1 Security, a cyber security company, in its US$162 million sale to Cloudflare
- Amphenol in multiple acquisitions, including its US$715 million acquisition of Halo Technology
- Care.com in its US$500 million sale to IAC
- Cartera in its sale to Ebates
- CityMaps in its sale to TripAdvisor
- CloudHealth, a cloud management platform, in its sale to VMWare
- Drizly, an e-commerce company, in its sale for US$1.1 billion to Uber
- Desktop Metal, a 3-D printing company, in multiple acquisitions, including its US$575 million acquisition of ExOne
- Evolv Technology, an artificial intelligence security company, in its US$1.7 billion deSPAC merger
- Headspace, an online provider of well-being care, in its US$3.0 billion merger of equals with Ginger
- Keybase, a secure messaging and file-share service, in its sale to Zoom
- LogMeIn in its acquisition of the GoTo Business of Citrix Systems
- LogMeIn in its sale of its Bold360 business unit to Genesys
- SpaceClaim in its sale to ANSYS
- The Echo Nest in its sale to Spotify
- Thought Industries in its strategic growth investment from Luminate Capital
- Veracode in its US$614 million sale to CA Technologies
General Corporate Advice
- 5-Out, a restaurant tech machine learning platform
- Fairwinds, a Kubernetes security, policy and governance company
- Feather, an e-commerce platform for furniture rentals
- HealthyLongevity.Clinic, a longevity company
- Imago, a wearable robotics company
- Intain, a blockchain finance company
- Lexington Medical, a medical device company
- Metalenz, a meta-optics company
- Pison Technology, a gesture control company
- Pipedream, a hyperlogistics company
- Raise Marketplace, an e-commerce platform for selling new and used gift cards
- Realtime Robotics, an artificial intelligence robotics company
- Smallhold, an AgTech company
- Sublime Systems, a cement de-carbonization company
- Transcend Software, a design automation company