Martin A. Wellington

• Pandora Media on its:
  • Pre-IPO tender offer to provide liquidity to investors and employees;
  • $235 million initial public offering and $523 million follow-on offering of common stock;
  • $345 million private placement of convertible senior notes due 2020 (the 2020 Note) and its privately negotiated exchange of $192.9 million aggregate principal amount of 2020 Notes for a new issue of senior convertible notes due 2023;
  • $145 million acquisition of AdsWizz and $200 million disposition of Ticketfly to EventBrite;
  • Response to activist stockholder campaigns;
  • $480 million investment from Sirius XM Radio; and
  • $3.5 billion sale to Sirius XM Radio.
• Centerview Partners on its role:
  • 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., valued at $146 billion.
• Angie’s List on its:
  • $114 million initial public offering and $110 million follow-on offering of common stock;
  • Response to activist stockholder campaigns; and
  • Merger with HomeAdvisor to form ANGI Homeservices Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI), valued at approximately $5 billion.
• Cadence Design Systems on its:
  • Investment in Green Hills Software;
  • Unsolicited offer to acquire Mentor Graphics; and
  • Acquisitions of Rocketick Technologies, nusemi, SFM Technologies and Forte Design Systems.
• nCino on its:
  • $287 million initial public offering and its $555 million follow-on offering; and
  • $1.2 billion acquisition of SimpleNexus.
• Blackbaud on its acquisitions of MicroEdge, SmartTuition, and JustGiving.
• Vector Capital on its:
  • Sales of Corel to KKR, 20-20 Technologies to Golden Gate Capital and CollabNet to TPG Acquisition;
  • Acquisition, through one of its portfolio companies, IPValue Intellectual Property Management, of Longitude Licensing Limited;
  • Acquisitions of CollabNet, Gerber Scientific, Precise Software Solutions, Tripos, Pharsight and the minority interests in Corel Corporation and its sale of Certara; and its
  • $2.2 billion M.B.O. bid for Quest Software.
• Grove Collaborative on its:
  
  • Series D-1 and Series E Preferred Stock financings; and
  • DecSPAC merger with Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II, valued at $1.5 billion, including its $86 million PIPE financing and $50 million redemption backstop financing.
• Corel on its:
  • Acquisitions of the Roxio business from Rovi Corporation and Pinnacle business from Avid; and its
  • Acquisitions of MindManager, ClearSlide and the Parallels business.
• Afilias, Inc. in connection with its sale to Donuts Inc.
• WatchGuard Technologies on its buyout by Vector Capital.
• Singular Key on its acquisition by Ping Identity.
• Cambium Networks Corporation in its secondary public offering of 2.5 million ordinary shares sold by an affiliate of Vector Capital at US$28.00 per share.
• Volkswagen AG in its co-investment with Ford Motor Company in autonomous vehicle technology company, Argo AI, valuing Argo at US$7.1 billion. 
• The RealReal in its $345 million initial public offering.
• Cambium Networks Corporation in its $69.9 million initial public offering.
• Sale of Spireon by Bertram Capital to Greenbriar Equity Group.
• CollabNet and Vector Capital on their acquisition of Version One.
• Centrify Corporation in connection with a majority investment by Thoma Bravo.
• Underwriters of the initial public offerings of Splunk, Chegg, Café Press, Carbonite and Reach Local.
• The convertible note offerings by HomeAway, Callidus and Outerwall and high-yield notes offering by Outerwall.
• Symantec on its $1.3 billion acquisition of the authentication and identity security business of VeriSign.
• E*TRADE Financial’s $500 million follow-on public offering of common stock and exchange offer for $1.7 billion of its outstanding debt securities.
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum’s $1.3 billion acquisition of Metals USA.
• Francisco Partners’ joint venture in Numonyx with Intel and STMicroelectronics.
• Acrisure in its recapitalization and partial buyout by ABRY Partners of Genstar’s position in Acrisure.
• Intapp in its recapitalization and partial buyout by Temasek by way of a tender offer for a portion of the positions of Great Hill Partners and other pre-existing investors.
• Abakus on its acquisition by SAP.
• Pre-IPO financings and ongoing matters for Vicarious, Inkling, Abakus and others.
• RWE AG in connection with its investments in PlanetOS and Intertrust.
• SunPower on its offering of convertible notes and its acquisition of SolarBridge Technologies.
• Gerber Scientific’s spinoff of its Spandex distribution business.

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

• Girls on the Run of the Bay Area, Board of Directors (2009–2015); Chairman (2011–2013)