Robert W. Brown II

Robert's experience includes advising on the data privacy and security aspects of transactions for:

Acquisitions

• Coinbase in its acquisition of One River Digital, a digital asset manager
• Binance.US, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, in its purchase of the assets of Voyager Digital LLC in the context of Voyager’s bankruptcy proceeding
• Extra Space Storage in its US$12.4 billion acquisition of Life Storage
• Discord in its acquisition of Gas, a poll-based app
• Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of CrossFit*
• SiriusXM in its acquisitions of Simplecast and Stitcher*
• Thomson Reuters Corporation in its US$500 million acquisition of SurePrep, a provider of tax automation software
• Open Health Communications in its acquisition of The CM Group, a medical communications platform
• Basalt Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of Fatbeam, a broadband service provider
• Peninsula Pacific Entertainment in its acquisition of Kansas Crossing Casino, a casino company, and Kansas Crossing Real Estate, a real estate property
• DB Schenker in its US$435 million acquisition of USA Truck, a general commodity transportation company
• New Relic in its acquisition of K2 Cyber Security, a provider of a web application and cloud workload protection platform
• The Sterling Group in its US$650 million acquisition of Ergotron, a designer, manufacturer, and distributor of ergonomic products
• TriSummit Utilities in its US$800 million acquisition of the Alaska Utilities Business of AltaGas
• Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in ZO Skin Health*
• Charlesbank Capital Partners and its portfolio company Bridges Consumer Healthcare in Bridges’ acquisition of Clarion Brands*
• Sanofi in its US$3.7 billion acquisition of Principia Biopharma*

Divestitures

• Ka'ena Corporation, a wireless solutions provider, in its US$1.35 billion sale to T-Mobile US
• Consolidated Edison in its US$6.8 billion sale of Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses and its subsidiaries to RWE Renewables Americas
• Peninsula Pacific in the US$2.75 billion sale of its gaming business to Churchill Downs Incorporated
• Fandom in its US$142 million sale of D&D Beyond, a digital toolset and game companion, to Hasbro
• Otonomo, an Israel-based developer of an automotive data service platform and marketplace, in its US$371 million sale to Urgently
• Solvvy, a Northern California-based, leading conversational AI and automation platform for customer support, in its sale to Zoom Video Communication
• Tradesy, an online consignment shopping platform, in its sale to Vestiaire Collective
• Viasat in its US$1.96 billion sale of Link 16 Tactical Data Links Business, a provider of a data link network to L3Harris Technologies
• Cardtronics in its US$2.5 billion sale to NCR*
• Maxim Integrated Products in its US$21 billion sale to Analog Devices*
• QuickChek in its US$645 million sale to Murphy USA

Investments

• Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in acquiring a significant stake in Zaxby’s*
• Apax Partners as lead investor in Payfone’s US$100 million Series H funding round*
• Blackstone Growth in its investment in ISN Software*
• TPG Growth as lead investor in MX Technologies’ US$300 million Series C funding round and Prodigy Education’s US$124 million Series B funding round*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm