McKay, Jack

Jack McKay

Associate

jack.mckay@lw.com
    McKay, Jack

    Jack McKay

    Associate

    jack.mckay@lw.com

    Profile

    Jack McKay is an associate in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Corporate Department.

    Jack represents financial institutions, public and private companies, and investors in a broad range of matters, in particular, he focuses on:

    • Mergers and acquisitions
    • Venture and growth capital
    • Emerging companies
    • Private equity transactions
    • Corporate governance

    Jack received his JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. During law school, he was executive editor of the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property and law clerk for the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center, where he counseled early-stage startups on corporate and IP matters. He also served as an honors intern at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement.

    Experience

    Jack’s representative experience includes advising:

    Mergers & Acquisitions

    • Cerevel Therapeutics in its US$8.7 billion acquisition by AbbVie
    • Skrewball Whiskey in its majority stake sale to Pernod Ricard
    • Switch in its US$11 billion acquisition by affiliates of DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors
    • Prometheus Biosciences in its US$10.8 billion acquisition by Merck
    • Truepill in its acquisition by LetsGetChecked
    • PIMCO in its US$3.9 billion acquisition of Columbia Property Trust
    • Landsea Homes in its US$242.5 million acquisition of Antares Homes
    • Obagi in Waldencast Acquisition Corp.’s simultaneous US$1.2 billion acquisition of Obagi and Milk Makeup
    • A publicly traded sales and marketing company in the sale of its collection of foodservice businesses
    • Zogenix in its US$1.9 billion acquisition by UCB
    • American Advisors Group in its sale to Finance of America Companies Inc.
    • Ligand Pharmaceuticals in its spinoff of OmniAb and concurrent US$850 million business combination of OmniAb with Avista Public Acquisition Corp. II
    • Bioventus in its US$518 million acquisition of Misonix
    • Acufocus in its acquisition by Bausch + Lomb

    Venture Capital, Growth Capital and Private Equity

    • a16z
    • Eclipse Ventures
    • KKR
    • Microsoft
    • Y Combinator
    • Golub Capital
    • Goldman Sachs
    • Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Emerging Companies

    • Skild AI
    • Gate Bioscience
    • Hiyo
    • MXXY
    • Skrewball Whiskey
    • Truepill
    • Higher Ground Education
    • Figure 1 Beauty
    • Starday Foods
    • AcuFocus
    • Immunis

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, 2020
    • BS in Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University, 2016
      magna cum laude, Tau Beta Pi

    Languages Spoken

    • English

    Practices

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