"Well versed in novel areas of the technology sector such as cryptocurrency, AI and cloud computing."
Chambers USA 2024
Up-and-Coming – Technology & Outsourcing
Chambers USA 2024
"Morgan Brubaker is a fabulous attorney. She worked with us on a tricky deal and is such a hard worker."
Chambers USA 2023
"Morgan is extremely responsive, knowledgeable and reliable."
Chambers USA 2023
"She is a terrific attorney."
Chambers USA 2023
Rising Star – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
The Legal 500 US 2022
Profile
Morgan Brubaker represents a broad range of clients in drafting and negotiating complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions relating to technology.
Morgan regularly advises clients with respect to:
Cloud computing and data strategy
Acquisitions
Strategic alliances
Joint ventures
Intellectual property licensing
Development, manufacturing, supply, and commercialization agreements
Data privacy and security matters
Morgan takes a commercial approach to solving clients’ business issues using risk-based legal strategies to protect clients’ interests while helping them achieve their business goals. Drawing on experience as a technology consultant advising Fortune 500 corporations on global IT planning and strategy, she understands clients’ commercial, operational, and regulatory challenges in the jurisdictions where her clients do business.
Morgan serves as pro bono liaison for the Nature Conservancy and helps a range of pro bono clients with technology licensing matters.
Experience
Morgan's experience includes advising:
Transportation/Autonomous and Electric Vehicles
An autonomous vehicle technology company in several complex long-term agreements with strategic investors to supply and purchase vehicles, license technology, and operate and service vehicles for its future fleet
Hyundai Motors in its acquisition of robotics design company Boston Dynamics, valued at US$1.1 billion
Hyundai Motors in its innovative partnership with Aptiv to develop and commercialize autonomous vehicle technology
A leading multinational automotive manufacturer in developing and implementing its electronic vehicle mobile application
A publicly traded aerospace and defense company in strategic outsourcing agreements with third-party implementation and services providers for certain inventory management and data warehousing services
Rivian Automotive, an electric vehicle manufacturer, in one of the largest technology IPOs to date
A self-driving taxi company in several agreements related to developing a proprietary semiconductor chip and associated technology for use in its self-driving cars
SiriusXM in procuring and launching several satellites
Virgin Galactic in its de-SPAC merger with Social Capital Hedosophia
Virgin Orbit in a de-SPAC merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II
Fintech
Macquarie in US$500 million financing for Lambda
Ares Management in its acquisition of Black Creek Group
An investor in open API banking platform Belvo’s US$43 million Series A financing
A large global bank in an agreement to implement a worldwide trading and risk management platform
A large global bank in negotiating, developing, and implementing a worldwide currency trading platform
A leading big-data and market structure technology provider in negotiating and implementing a consolidated audit trail plan processor agreement pursuant to SEC Rule 613
A leading capital markets technology firm specializing in distributed ledger infrastructure in negotiating and implementing a trading network with multiple global investment banks
A leading fixed income, derivatives, and electronic trading platform provider in contractual arrangements with customers, partners, and vendors
A machine-learning technology startup in drafting form customer agreements for its forward analysis and hedging platform
A startup managing and operating cryptocurrency trading solutions in contractual arrangements with partners, vendors, and banks
Tagomi, a leading crypto brokerage platform, in its acquisition by Coinbase
Life Sciences and Healthcare
Chardan Healthcare Acquisition 2 in its merger with Renovacor
DXC Technology, an end-to-end IT services and solutions company, in the sales of its state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital and its global healthcare business to Dedalus
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in several large-scale multinational commercial transactions
Siemens Healthineers in its acquisition of Varian Medical Systems, a US maker of devices and software for cancer treatments, valued at US$16.4 billion
Talkspace in its merger with a SPAC sponsored by Hudson Executive Capital to form the only publicly traded pure play virtual behavioral health company
Other High-Profile Matters
IMCO in its US$250 million investment in Scala Data Centers
A large technology company in its sale of several data centers in the US and South America
Silver Lake as the leader, along with DigitalBridge Group, Inc. of a US$9.2 billion equity investment in Vantage Data Centers
Multiple maritime shipping companies in creating a joint venture with IBM to implement and maintain a blockchain solution to support global logistics
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.
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