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Dana C. F. Kromm
Partner

Education
University of California, Davis School of Law, J.D., 2001
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. Psychology, 1996

Practice
Dana Kromm is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in San Francisco.  She has extensive experience representing both strategic and financial buyers and sellers in public and private mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, tender and exchange offers, joint ventures, complex carve-out acquisitions, minority investments, and corporate partnering transactions, as well as corporate governance matters and special committee representations.  She also has significant experience in cross-border transactions.  In addition, Dana represents portfolio companies of private equity clients, handling day-to-day legal activities, add-on acquisitions, and other general corporate work.

Experience
  • Francisco Partners in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of FrontRange Limited, RedPrairie, Ex Libris, Healthland, AdvancedMD Software, API Healthcare, T-System, Quantros and minority stakes in various companies, and its dispositions of RedPrairie, Ex Libris and AdvancedMD Software
  • Vector Capital in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of RAE Systems, Trafficmaster Plc, Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd and Register.com
  • Symphony Technology Group in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of IBS AB, Fusion Geo, Prism Seismic, ImpactRx and minority stakes in various companies
  • Sybase in numerous transactions, including its sale to SAP, and its acquisitions of Extended Systems, Avaki and Mobile 365
  • Visa in its acquisition of PlaySpan
  • Intuit in its acquisitions of PayCycle and Boorah
  • Viacom in its disposition of Harmonix
  • Sandisk in its acquisition of Music Gremlin
  • Strategic Committee of Silicon Storage in the proposed sale of Silicon Storage to an affiliate of private equity firm Prophet Equity and members of management (terminated) and in its subsequent sale to Microchip Technology Inc.
  • Catalyst Semiconductor in its sale to ON Semiconductor
  • Planned Parenthood Shasta-Pacific, on a pro bono basis, in connection with the expansion of its territory in Northern California


Bar Admissions/Qualifications
California