Baker McKenzie is advising Aurora Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in a de-SPAC transaction to transform Better, one of the fastest-growing digital homeownership companies in the US, into a publicly traded company. This follows Baker's advising in the formation and initial public offering of Aurora in March 2021.
Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will operate under the Better name. The transaction, which includes a USD 1.5 billion commitment from Softbank to purchase equity in Aurora, reflects an implied equity value for Better of approximately USD 6.9 billion and a post-money transaction value of approximately USD 7.7 billion.
The combined US and London-based Baker McKenzie team was led by transactional partners Derek Liu and Adam Eastell and also included:
Corporate
Lisa Fontenot
Michael DeFranco
Mark Mandel
Steve Canner
Michelle Heisner
Amanda Bradley
Adam Buehler
Maryam AlSayyad
Molly Zhu
Tom Gastrell
Banking & Finance
Matthew Dening
Andrew Sagor
Tax
Kai Kramer
Ross Staine
Antitrust/CFIUS
Rod Hunter
Brian Burke
Sylwia Lis
Employment
Thomas Asmar
Intellectual Property
Marcela Robledo
The Baker McKenzie Transactional Team has recently advised on numerous transactions in the technology, media and telecom industries, including representing Affirm on its acquisition of PayBright; Viasat in its purchase of Euro Broadband Infrastructure Sàri; Cadence Design Systems in the acquisition of Pointwise, Inc.; Mytheresa, in its approximately USD 407 million initial public offering; and Atos on its acquisition of Ipsotek.
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