Emery Mitchell

Emery D. Mitchell

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Emery Mitchell is a corporate/M&A partner in the Firm’s San Francisco office. Emery has more than 30 years of experience practicing in New York and San Francisco as a corporate transactional lawyer. His practice covers M&A, cross-border transactions, venture capital/private equity transactions, joint ventures and corporate governance matters.

Practice Focus

Emery represents public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of companies and assets and in joint ventures. He also represents venture capital/private equity funds, companies and investors in venture capital/private equity investments.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Seiko Epson, in its acquisition of Fiery, LLC from affiliates of Siris Capital.
  • Wilbur-Ellis Holdings, Inc., in the combination of its Connell Bros. life sciences and specialty chemicals business with Advent International-backed, Caldic B.V.
  • Virtual Therapeutics Corporation, in its tender offer for Akili Interactive.
  • Cadence Design Systems, in its sale to Silvaco of certain optical proximity correction assets.
  • LiveRamp, Inc., in several US acquisitions.
  • Bandcamp, in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Epic Games.
  • Trimble Inc., in its acquisition of Viewpoint.
  • The Nielsen Company, in its minority investment in OpenSlate.
  • ePlanet Ventures and ePlanet Capital, in fund formation and capital raising and certain strategic and portfolio company investments.
  • Thor Industries, Inc., in its acquisition of Erwin Hymer Group.
  • Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, in various US acquisitions and investments.
  • Tourism Holdings Ltd., in various acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments and financing matters.
  • Konica Minolta, in its acquisition of Ambry Genetics.
  • Olam International Limited, in the US aspects of a vendor due diligence process in connection with the proposed sale of an equity stake in Olam Global Agri Holdings Pte. Ltd.
  • HTC Corporation. in the sale of its stake in Beats Electronics, LLC and related loans and in certain venture capital investments.

Admissions

  • California~United States
  • New York~United States

Education

  • University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly University of California, Hastings College of the Law) (JD)
  • University of California at Berkeley (BA)

Languages

  • English

Co-author, “Acquiring Start-Up Technology Companies,” Euromoney Magazine, Internet Economy 2001/2002 edition

Co-author, “A Tweak with a Punch”—An Analysis of the Pure Resources decision, The Daily Deal, November 2, 2002