Gvantsa (Gwen) Karanadze
Biography
Gwen Karanadze is an associate in the Transactional Group in Baker McKenzie's New York office, where her practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions.
Practice Focus
Gwen advises both public and private clients in mergers, tender offers, asset acquisitions, stock purchases, and other strategic corporate transactions. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Gwen advised a publicly traded technology company in Silicon Valley on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, private and public company equity investment, and post-merger restructuring.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised Coinbase in its investment in CoinDCX, a leading crypto exchange in India and the Middle East.
- Advised Lotus Pharmaceutical in its acquisition of New Alvogen Group Holdings, Inc.
- Advised Mastercard in its investment transaction in Corpay for USD 300 million.
- Advised hearX Group in its merger with Hearing health pioneers Eargo, a maker of Lexie Hearing aids, resulting in the creation of a combined company called LXE Hearing.
- Advised Thomson Reuters in the divestment of its majority stake in Elite to TPG, valuing the business at approximately USD 500 million.
- Advised 65 Equity Partners Management in its investment transaction in Kendra Scott.
- Advised Lundbeck in its acquisition of Longboard Pharmaceuticals for a total value of USD 2.6 billion.
- Advised Olink Holding AB in its sale to Thermo Fisher for a total value of USD 3.1 billion.
- Advised Salesforce in its acquisition of Atonit, a marketplace management solution.
- Advised Salesforce in its acquisition of Lintao SA, an information technology and services company specializing in the design of analytics dashboards and data visualization.
- Advised Salesforce in its acquisition of PredictSpring Inc., a modern retail POS software company.
- Advised Jinjiang Hotels in its sale of the Radisson Hotel Group Americas to Choice Hotels for USD 675 million.
- Advised EDF in an equity investment by EDF Pulse Ventures.
- Advised Global Ventures, Novastar Ventures West Africa Limited and Lightrock in an equity investment into Max, a Nigerian company, in the Series B funding round of USD 31 million.
- Advised Mozilla Corporation in its acquisition of Fakespot, a developer of an online data authentication platform designed to prevent fake and misleading content from deceiving consumers.
Admissions
- New York~United States (2022)
- California~United States (2019)
Education
- Stanford Law School (LLM) (2018)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (LLM) (2008)
- Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (LLB) (2006)
Languages
- English
- Russian
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