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Michelle's practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, including corporate venture capital and strategic investments, equity financings, private placements and mergers and acquisitions. She regularly counsels corporate venture capital and strategic investors, investment funds and other venture capital investors on investments, divestments and other portfolio company matters, including Chevron Technology Ventures, Citigroup, Dell Technologies Ventures, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Texas Instruments, USAA, VMware and Yamaha Motor Ventures.
Erfahrung
Venture Capital and Private Equity
- Representation of the investment arm of a large insurance and financial services company in its strategic investments in innovative technology companies, including data security, artificial and augmented intelligence, application development, B2B software, commercial drones, fintech, insurtech, AI, speech automation, and electric vehicles
- Representation of a large insurance and financial services company in its investments in various venture capital investment funds
- Representation of the investment arm of a global computer company in its strategic investments in innovative technology companies, including cloud security, AI, genome sequencing, data analytics, machine learning software, and semiconductors, as well as its equity investment in a third-party risk management provider
- Representation of a cloud computing software company in its strategic investments in innovative technology companies, including 5G, enterprise data storage, and DevOps
- Representation of a state government investment organization in its strategic investments and fund formations
- Representation of video-streaming platform Restream, Inc. in its $50 million Series A financing
- Representation of a venture capital fund in its $60 million Series D investment in a cybersecurity company
- Representation of a global investment firm in its seed investment in a self-storage real estate investment fund with initial properties located in Asia
Public Offerings
- Representation of the underwriters in the $90 million initial public offering of a ski resort company
- Representation of a selling stockholder in a $108 million follow-on offering of a digital automotive marketplace company
- Representation of a supply chain management software and services company in its $50.6 million initial public offering
- Representation of a physician practice management company in its $36 million initial public offering
- Representation of the underwriters in the $89.9 million initial public offering of a propagation and optimization solutions provider for the wireless industry
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Representation of a warehouse logistics software company in its acquisition by a supply chain technology company
- Representation of an allergy lab company in its acquisition of a competing allergy lab company
- Representation of a Fortune 500 computer technology corporation in its acquisition of a California-based storage optimization company specializing in data deduplication
- Representation of an international pharmaceuticals company in its acquisition of a California-based consulting and reimbursement services company
- Representation of a storage resource management company in its acquisition by a publicly traded IT management software company
- Representation of a portfolio company of a Dallas-based private equity firm in its purchase of the assets of an offshore commercial diving company
- Representation of a leading home healthcare and hospice services provider in its acquisition of two regional home healthcare and hospice service providers
SPAC
- Representation of Ibere Pharmaceuticals, a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries, in its $138 million initial public offering
Qualifikationen
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Studium
University of Texas School of Law
J.D. (with honors)
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
B.S., Economics, cum laude
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Zulassungen
Of Note
Professional Affiliations
- State Bar of Texas
- Austin Bar Association
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Asian Pacific Interest Section of the State Bar of Texas
- Austin Asian American Bar Association
- Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Austin
Speaking Engagements
- “Corporate Venture Capital Trends,” presented to a client (January 18, 2023)
- “Corporate Venture Capital Trends,” presented to a client (October 18, 2022)