About Cydney

Cydney S. Posner is special counsel in Cooley's public companies group. Her practice concentrates on corporate counseling in connection with SEC reporting and compliance, corporate governance and general corporate matters. She has also represented both issuers and underwriters in numerous public offerings primarily for emerging growth companies, including companies in the internet and high technology, life sciences and consumer retail sectors. In addition, she has represented companies in mergers, tender offers and other change-of-control transactions, going-private transactions and private placements.

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Experience

Medivation Agrees to Sell to Pfizer for $14 Billion

Medivation Agrees to Sell to Pfizer for $14 Billion

August 23, 2016

Cooley is advising biopharmaceutical company Medivation on its agreement to sell to Pfizer for approximately $14 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the third or fourth quarter. Prior to the announced agreement, Cooley also advised Medivation as the target of a hostile takeover bid by Sanofi.

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Jamie Leigh
Partner, San Francisco
Kenneth Guernsey
Senior Counsel , San Francisco
Marty Schenker
Senior Counsel , San Francisco
Patrick Gibbs
Partner, Palo Alto
Barbara Mirza
Partner, Santa Monica
Thomas Welk
Senior Counsel, San Diego
Natasha Leskovsek
Of Counsel, Washington, DC
Sarah Lightdale
Partner, New York
Cydney Posner
Special Counsel, San Francisco
Ben Beerle
Partner, San Francisco
Anne Lieberman
Partner, Santa Monica

Related Practices & Industries

Mergers and Acquisitions
Life Sciences
Antitrust and Competition
Commercial Litigation
Compensation and Benefits
Tax

DreamWorks Animation in Acquisition of AwesomenessTV

DreamWorks Animation in Acquisition of AwesomenessTV

May 9, 2013

Los Angeles – Cooley represented DreamWorks Animation in the negotiations that culminated in its agreement to buy AwesomenessTV, a multichannel YouTube subscription for teens.

DreamWorks Animation will pay $33 million upfront and up to an additional $117 million, contingent on AwesomenessTV achieving specified earnings targets in 2014 and 2015.

Related contacts

Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Cydney Posner
Special Counsel, San Francisco
John Paul Oleksiuk
Partner, New York

Admissions and credentials

California

Memberships and affiliations

The Bar Association of San Francisco

The State Bar of California

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