Alex’s emerging and venture-backed company clients have included 3Box Labs, AeroMINE Technologies, Amplio, Axoni, Barosa, BitGo, Cloudburst Technologies, CryptoMarket, Dastan, DeltaMath, Ducky, Evertas, Findigs, Formal, Gitcoin, Hanover Park, IrisVR, Lucidity Lights (Finally Bulbs), Mobot, Nova Labs, OnDemand Korea, Panoptic, Parachute Health, Portal Instruments, Propel, Rent the Runway, Right Trigger Entertainment, Simplified, Tarform, Thnks, Trete, and Two Moons, among others.
Alex also regularly advises more mature companies in strategic investments and M&A transactions. Representative transactions include:
Representative Strategic Minority Investments:
- Advised Rakuten and its affiliates in their investments in: Lyft, Pinterest, Altiostar Networks, Upstart Networks, CafeX Communications, Simplesurance, Xola, and Ahalife, among others
- Represented a publicly traded US technology company in its Series A investment in a smart data company
- Advised a publicly traded US technology company in its proposed Series C investment in a company providing a financial and credit advisory platform
- Represented a privately held media company in its Series Seed investment in a streaming digital media services company
- Represented an international bank in its Series A investment in a fintech incubator platform
- Represented a publicly traded US medical device company as lead investor in its Series A investment in a cardiological implant company
Representative M&A Transactions:
- Advised Rakuten and its affiliates in their acquisitions of: Viki, Altiostar Networks, Slice Technologies, First Mile, DC Storm, DeepForest Media, Manifest Commerce, Vibrant Data, MediaForge and Nextperformance, among others
- Represented BitGo in its acquisitions of Lumina Technologies, Harbor, and Brassica Technologies
- Represented 3Box Labs in its merger with Textile
- Represented LogMeIn in its acquisition of LastPass
- Advised Buidlbox in its sale to HackQuest
- Represented Rakuten in its sale of OverDrive to KKR
- Represented Boston Scientific Corporation in its acquisitions of BridgePoint Medical and Asthmatx, among others
- Advised a private equity fund portfolio company in its acquisition of a virtual design software company
- Represented Rakuten in its sale of The Grommet to Ace Hardware
- Advised Atrium Medical Corporation in its sale to GETINGE AB
- Represented Rakuten in its sale of Rakuten Intelligence to NielsenIQ
- Advised Fitness Connection in its sale to LNK Partners
- Advised Rakuten in its sale of its Performance Solutions advertising business to Brunner
- Represented Rakuten as a major shareholder in connection with the sale of Juno to Gett
