Marianne Tassone

Representative matters include:

• Grove Collaborative, a leading sustainable consumer products company, in its pending business combination with Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: VGII), a SPAC, with an implied pro forma equity value of US$1.5 billion.
• The underwriters in the upsized US$198.7 million initial public offering by Tyra Biosciences, Inc., a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer.
• The underwriters in the US$129.4 million initial public offering by Immuneering Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company with an emerging pipeline focused on improving patient outcomes across a spectrum of debilitating oncologic and neurologic diseases by applying translational bioinformatics to every stage of the drug development process. Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, Cowen, and Guggenheim Securities acted as joint book-running managers of the offering
• Tempest Therapeutics, a privately held, clinical-stage oncology company developing potentially first-in-class therapeutics that combine both targeted and immune-mediated mechanisms, in connection with its merger with Millendo Therapeutics
• Spot, a leader in compute management and cost optimization on the public clouds, in its acquisition by cloud data services leader NetApp® to establish leadership in Application Driven Infrastructure
• Coinbase, Inc., a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin, in its:
  • Acquisition of Tagomi, a leading crypto prime brokerage platform
  • Acquisition of Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace, Inc., and Digital Wealth LLC
  • Acquisition of Paradex, a relay trading platform that allows customers to trade tokens directly from their wallets
  • Acquisition of Earn.com
• Packet, a leading bare metal automation platform, in its definitive agreement to be acquired by Equinix, Inc., a global interconnection and data center company
• Scout RFP, a leading cloud-based platform for strategic sourcing and supplier engagement, in its $540 million acquisition by Workday, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources
• Apprente, Inc., leader in voice-based, conversational technology, in its acquisition by McDonald’s Corporation
• Underwriters in the initial public offering for Farfetch Limited, a leading technology platform for the global luxury fashion industry in its $1.01 billion initial public offering

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