Business-minded legal services to fit
your needs, timeline and budget
Complex Transactions
Strategic
Advice
Data and
Technology
Fluent in business, not legalese
Sarah Koper has extensive experience representing and advising a wide spectrum of businesses, from industry giants like Google to tech startups in all stages of their development, formation to exit. Clients have included Zocdoc, Common and Grailed, among many others.
During her years at leading startup and VC firm Gunderson Dettmer, she acted as outside inside counsel to clients, partnering closely with business teams ranging from C-suite to engineers and sales managers.
Before that, Sarah focused on intellectual property, technology and mergers and acquisitions at international firm Cleary Gottlieb. Highlights include representing:
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Medtronic, Inc. in its inversion acquisition of Covidien plc, a global healthcare technology and medical supplies provider, for $42.9 billion.
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Google in its acquisition of Waze, an Israeli social-mapping location-data technology startup, and its divestiture of the Motorola Home Business, a maker of cable set-top boxes, for $2.35 billion.
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American Express in Time Inc.'s acquisition of Amex's publishing division (including Food & Wine and Travel & Leisure magazines).
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Open Text Corp., Canada's largest software company, in its acquisition of GXS Group, Inc., a B2B cloud integration leader, for $1.165 billion.
Legal solutions, not roadblocks
Full spectrum services for your business needs:
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complex transactions: commercial, technology, SaaS (software as a service), licensing, intellectual property, data, advertising, analytics, IT, media, e-commerce, privacy (including GDPR), non-competiton, vendor, customer and master services:
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high-impact deals: mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;
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high growth moves: inception, formation, financings, fundraising, reorganization, business partnering and strategic alliances;
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daily operations: product development, employment, contractors, policies and procedures, compliance, best practices and strategic advice;
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and much more.