Grace M. Lee

Grace has substantial experience advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions. Her clients in recent matters include:

• Adventist Health
• ArchiMed
• BV Investment Partners
• Cadence Design Systems
• Goldman Sachs
• GreyLion Capital
• Hippo Enterprises
• Intuit
• Penguin Solutions (fka SMART Global)
• Prospect Hill Growth
• Reddit
• System1 
• WestView Capital Partners

Selected M&A representations include:

• Goldman Sachs in its acquisition of Xpress Wellness
• Cadence Design Systems in its US$1.24 billion acquisition of BETA CAE Systems International
• MTL Holdings in its US$410 million sale by GreyLion Partners to Carlisle Companies
• e.l.f. Cosmetics in its US$335 million acquisition of Naturium LLC
• MedAlliance in its US$1.14 billion sale to Cordis
• System1 in its US$340 million sale of Total Security Limited
• New Relic in its US$6.5 billion take private to Francisco Partners and TPG Capital
• Intuit in its:
  • US$7.1 billion acquisition of Credit Karma
  • US$12 billion acquisition of Mailchimp
  • US$340 million acquisition of TSheets
• Sobi in its US$1.7 billion acquisition of CTI BioPharma Corp
• Elephant Partners in connection with KnowBe4’s US$4.6 billion going-private transaction
• ArchiMed Group in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Natus Medical Incorporated
• Cerner in US$28.3 billion acquisition by Oracle
• Cast & Crew on its:
  • Acquisition of Backstage Holdings
  • Acquisition of the Team Companies
• Slack Technologies in its US$27.7 billion sale to Salesforce
• Planet Labs in its US$2.8 billion business combination with dMY Technology Group IV
• Cloudera in its US$5.3 billion sale to affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR
• Hippo Enterprises, a provider of home insurance products, in its US$5 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners Z
• Postmates in its US$3 billion sale to Uber
• Pipedrive in its majority investment by Vista Equity Partners
• Cradlepoint in its US$1.1 billion sale to Ericsson
• Aimmune Therapeutics in its US$2.6 billion sale to Nestle
• Honey Science in its US$4 billion acquisition by PayPal
• Virgin America in its approximately US$4.43 billion sale to Alaska Airlines
• Twitch Interactive in its US$970 million sale to a multi-national technology company
• CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd. in its US$3.27 billion sale to Jacobs Engineering Group
• Thoratec in its approximately US$3.48 billion sale to St. Jude Medical
• OpenTable in its US$2.6 billion sale to Priceline
• Safeway in its:
  • Spinoff of Blackhawk Network Holdings
  • US$9 billion sale to Albertsons

Grace also frequently represents issuers and underwriters in equity, debt, and convertible note offerings and investors and companies in connection with investments, financings, and restructurings.