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Melanie Jolson

Counsel
Privacy & Cybersecurity

Melanie advises clients on privacy and cybersecurity considerations at all stages of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, debt offerings, financings, and licensing agreements. In all kinds of corporate deals, Melanie advises clients on all aspects of data sharing during due diligence, structuring transactions, evaluating target compliance, and strategic planning for integration planning and beyond.

Melanie works closely with clients on privacy issues throughout their lifecycle, from initial policies and website terms of service to data transfer and licensing agreements for corporate transactions across a wide range of tech and life science industries. Clients depend on her deal-making experience and deep knowledge of tech-related M&A for their most strategic transactions. Melanie also advises clients on compliance with domestic and international data privacy regulations, such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  • Funds advised by Apax in their $193 million acquisition of MyCase and later sale of MyCase to AffiniPay
  • Blackstone in its investment in Renaissance; acquisition of Ellucian; acquisition of International Data Group; acquisition of majority ownership in Liftoff; and acquisition of a majority stake in MagicLab
  • Cisco in its acquisitions of Robust Intelligence and SnapAttack
  • Karuna Therapeutics in its $14 billion acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • KKR, along with other investors, in their $1.25 billion investment in Epic Games
  • Model N in its $1.2 billion acquisition by Vista Equity Partners
  • Morphic in its $3.2 billion acquisition by Eli Lilly
  • Squarespace in its $400 million sale of Tock to American Express
  • TD Bank in its $13.4 billion acquisition of First Horizon
  • TransUnion in its $515 million acquisition of Verisk Financial Services and its $2.1 billion acquisition of Neustar
  • Wiz in its acquisition of Gem Security
  • Wonder in its $650 million acquisition of Grubhub

*includes work at a prior firm

  • BioAge in its $238 million upsized IPO and concurrent private placement
  • Bumble in its $2.5 billion IPO
  • ZoomInfo in its $1.07 billion IPO
  • Underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Securities, in Braze’s $572 million IPO
  • Underwriters, led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities and Goldman Sachs in Shift4 Payments’ $345 million IPO

*includes work at a prior firm