EXPERIENCE

Jake’s experience includes advising:

• Ouster in its merger of equals with Velodyne
• Skillz in its US$150 million acquisition of Aarki
• Cast & Crew in its acquisition of multiple businesses, including:
  • The Team Companies, a payroll and production management solutions company servicing the advertising, music and concert tours, and live events industries
  • Backstage, a leading provider of talent marketplace and content creation tools for the creative economy
• Five9 in its US$14.7 billion acquisition by Zoom
• Hippo Enterprises in its US$5 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners Z
• Planet Labs in its US$2.8 billion business combination with dMY Technology Group IV
• Boxed, an e-commerce grocery shopping platform selling bulk consumables to households and businesses, in its US$900 million merger with Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp.
• Advent International Corporation in its Stake Acquisition of RxBenefits*
• Apergy Corporation (d/b/a ChampionX Corporation) in a Reverse Morris Trust acquisition of ChampionX (f/k/a Nalco Champion) from Ecolab Inc. creating an entity with a combined US$7.4 billion enterprise value*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham