About Anne

Anne represents public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions and other complex strategic transactions.

Anne’s representative transactions include:

  • AuditBoard’s agreement to sell to Hg for more than $3 billion
  • Snowflake’s:
    • acquisition of Neeva
    • acquisition of LeapYear Technologies
  • ZitSticka’s sale to Heyday
  • 1Life Healthcare’s (d/b/a One Medical) sale to Amazon for $3.9 billion
  • Zoom’s:
    • agreement to acquire Five9 in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.7 billion
    • acquisition of Keybase
    • acquisition of Solvvy
    • acquisition of Workvivo
  • Principia Biopharma’s sale to Sanofi for $3.7 billion
  • MIRROR’s sale to Lululemon Athletica for $500 million
  • Cornerstone OnDemand’s acquisition of Saba for $1.3 billion
  • Nanometrics’ merger of equals with Rudolph Technologies; combined company market cap of $1.6 billion
  • Looker’s sale to Google for $2.6 billion
  • DocuSign’s acquisition of SpringCM for $220 million
  • Medidata’s acquisition of SHYFT Analytics for $195 million
  • Abaxis’ sale to Zoetis for $2 billion
  • Anova’s sale to Electrolux for $250 million
  • Medivation’s sale to Pfizer for $14 billion

Before joining Cooley, Anne was an associate in the New York office of an international law firm.

While at Columbia University School of Law, she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received the Richard J. Lipson and Paul S. Lipson Prize in Contracts, which is awarded annually to two first-year law students showing the greatest proficiency in the subject of contracts. Anne was also an articles editor for the Columbia Journal of Tax and Law and a staff member of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

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Admissions and credentials

  • California
  • New York

Education

  • Columbia Law School
    JD, 2011
  • Duke University
    BA, 2006

Rankings and accolades

Chambers USA: Corporate/M&A – California: Los Angeles & Surrounds: Up and Coming (2023 – 2025)

TheThe Deal: Top Rising Star (2021)

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