Sally Wagner Partin

SALLY WAGNER PARTIN concentrates her practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and related corporate advice, including SEC reporting, guiding both public and private companies through transformative events and critical governance matters. Her clients have included companies across life sciences/biopharmaceutical, technology, financial services, and adjacent sectors.

Sally has been widely recognized by Chambers USA, The Daily Journal as one of the 100 “Top Women Lawyers” across all practices, The Recorder as one of the 30 “Woman Leaders in Tech Law” for the California Legal Awards, and IFLR as a “Technology Lawyer of the Year.”

Sally also is experienced at advising public companies on corporate governance and best practices, disclosure and other SEC compliance issues, as well as ISS and proxy advisory firm matters and shareholder engagement and provides strategic counselling to private companies and investors, ranging from newly-formed start-up teams to mature late-stage private companies, on matters spanning the entire corporate life-cycle, including pre-incorporation planning, general corporate representation and counselling, venture capital financings and joint ventures.

Sally is also a member of the Life Science Cares Bay Area board and an author of the annual Survey of Trends and Key Components of CVRs in Life Sciences Public M&A Deals.

Some notable transactions include representing the following:

• Roche in its US$1.2 billion sale of its Genentech biologics manufacturing facility to Lonza
• Roche in its acquisition of Ignyta, Inc. (NASDAQ: RXDX), a cancer therapy company for US$1.7 billion in cash
• Audio Up Inc., a podcast production studio and network, including in connection with the sale of Series B Preferred Stock to a group of investors led by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) Inc.
• Flatiron Health, a healthtech company dedicated to helping cancer centers thrive and deliver better care for patients, in its inaugural M&A transaction to acquire Protocol First, a software solutions provider focused on accelerating clinical research
• ServiceTitan, a leading software provider for the trades, on its acquisition of FieldRoutes, a cloud-based and mobile SaaS provider in the pest control and lawn care industry
• Markforged (NYSE: MKFG) in its inaugural M&A transaction to acquire Teton Simulation Software
• Roche in its acquisition of diagnostics company, GenMark (NSDQ:GNMK) for US$1.8 billion in cash
• Afilias, Inc., a registry operator of top-level domains and registry service provider, in connection with its sale for an undisclosed amount to Donuts Inc.
• Centerview Partners LLP as financial advisor to the Independent Transaction Committee of the Board of Directors of Sprint Corporation in connection with the proposed combination of Sprint and T-Mobile US, Inc., in a stock-for-stock merger with a total implied enterprise value of approximately US$59 billion for Sprint and approximately US$146 billion for the combined company
• PayPal in its acquisition of Xoom Corporation (NASDAQ: XOOM), a leading international digital money transfer provider for US$890 million in cash
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of security company, Demisto, for US$560 million in cash and stock
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. on its acquisition of cloud-delivered SD-WAN provider, CloudGenix Inc., for US$420 million
• eBay in its acquisition of SalesPredict, an Israeli-based analytics company
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of security company, Aporeto
• PayPal in its acquisition of Braintree and Venmo, mobile and web payment systems platforms
• Intuit in its acquisition of Exactor, a leading cloud-based SaaS technology provider of sales and use tax calculation and filing
• Intuit in its acquihire of Xperiel, Inc., a unique digital experiential marketing platform
• Trustly, Europe’s leading online banking payments provider, in its acquisition of PayWithMyBank, an online banking payments company
• Roche in its acquisition of ForSight VISION4, a privately held biotechnology company focusing on drug delivery for treatment of retinal diseases
• Cadence Design Systems in its acquisition Rocketick Technologies Ltd, an Israeli-based hard technology company
• Dolby Laboratories in its acquisition of SLS Audio, a speaker technology company
• Omnicell in its acquisition of Aesynt, a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions, for approximately US$275 million
• Hansen Medical (HNSN) in its sale to Auris Surgical Robotics 
• Hoffmann-La Roche in its collaboration and option to acquire Versant incubator, Inception 3, an early stage hearing loss development program and Inception 5, an early stage multiple sclerosis development program
• eBay in its acquisition of shopping engine Milo
• PayPal in its acquisition of Zong SA, a Swiss mobile payments company 
• eBay in the sale of its 18.4% holding in MercadoLibre, Inc., the largest online commerce platform in Latin America, for US$1.4 billion
• Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the initial public offering for Restoration Hardware