Ellen E. Hunter

ELLEN HUNTER advises clients on a wide range of corporate and securities issues including mergers and acquisitions involving public and private entities, capital markets transactions, asset acquisitions and dispositions, and corporate governance. She has worked with financial and strategic buyers and sellers in the technology, healthcare, life sciences, media, and food and beverage industries.

Ellen regularly represents companies in cross-border M&A transactions. She has represented public companies on a range of securities law matters, including SEC periodic reporting obligations, proxy disclosures, stock exchange requirements, and corporate governance matters. Ellen earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review. She received her B.A. in economics and M.A. in the humanities from Stanford University.

• Roche in its US$1.2 billion sale of its Genentech biologics manufacturing facility to Lonza
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of security company Demisto for US$560 million in cash and stock
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of Israel-based security company Twistlock for US$410 million in cash
• Splunk Inc. in its acquisition of cloud monitoring company SignalFX for US$1.05 billion in cash and stock
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of Israel-based serverless security company PureSec
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of security company Aporeto
• Infogix in its acquisition of DATUM
• A publicly traded packaged foods company in its sale for US$1.5 billion
• A publicly traded full service restaurant and packaged foods company in the sale of its restaurant division for US$565 million to a private equity firm
• A Louisiana-based independent dental and vision benefits company in its US$127 million sale to a publicly traded disability insurance provider
• A publicly traded healthcare SaaS provider in its acquisition of a credentialing software company for US$48 million

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.