Izzy Lubarsky

Izzy is a member of Cooley’s M&A and Private Equity groups, and focuses his practice on all types of private and public mergers & acquisitions transactions and other complex corporate transactions – including strategic acquisitions, private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts, cross-border transactions, carve outs, joint ventures and growth equity investments. He represents strategic and financial buyers and sellers across a variety of industries – including technology, life sciences, software as a service, fintech, artificial intelligence, healthcare, cybersecurity, and blockchain and crypto.

Izzy’s representative transactions include advising:

Technology

• Catalyst Software Corporation in its merger with Totango
• Contentsquare in its cross-border acquisitions of Heap and Clicktale
• Transact Campus in its acquisition of Quickcharge
• Clarabridge in its $1.1 billion sale to Qualtrics
• Cedar Cares in its $425 million acquisition of OODA Health
• Datadog in numerous acquisitions – including its acquisitions of Sqreen and Undefined Labs
• Snap in numerous acquisitions
• Qualcomm in an acquisition of a private company
• AvePoint in its $200 million strategic equity investment led by Sixth Street Partners and its $2 billion SPAC merger with Apex Technology to become a public company
• Human Security in its sale to Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division
• PatientPop in its merger with Kareo to form Tebra
• Stealthbits in its sale to Netwrix, a TA Associates portfolio company
• Zoom in its acquisition of Keybase
• Tenable in its cross-border acquisition of Indegy
• Credible Behavioral Health in its minority recapitalization by Martis Capital and sale to Qualtrics, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company
• Telaria in its merger of equals with the Rubicon Project
• JMI Equity in its strategic growth investment in Raptor Technologies and Raptor Technologies in its acquisition of LobbyGuard
• The Athene Group in its sale to Sagewind Capital
• FreshPlanet in its sale to Gameloft
• Silver Lake as lead investor in a $500 million strategic growth investment in SoFi*
• Vivint in its $100 million investment by Peter Thiel and Solamere Capital*
• IFS, an EQT Group portfolio company, in its acquisition of WorkWave*

Life sciences

• Gracell Biotechnologies in its $1.2 billion sale to AstraZeneca
• Qpex Biopharma in its sale to Shionogi for up to $140 million
• CinCor Pharma in its sale to AstraZeneca for up to approximately $1.8 billion
• Good Therapeutics in its sale to Roche for $250 million
• Fortis Therapeutics in FibroGen’s option to acquire Fortis for up to $200 million
• Castle Biosciences in its acquisition of AltheaDx
• Chimerix in its sale of TEMBEXA to Emergent BioSolutions for up to $337.5 million
• Celularity in its SPAC merger with GX Acquisition Corp. for $1.7 billion to become a publicly listed company
• Cavion in its sale to Jazz Pharmaceuticals for up to $312.5 million
• CytoSen Therapeutics in its sale to Kiadis

Other industries

• ChannelAdvisor in its sale to CommerceHub for $725 million
• IEX Group in its strategic investment in FTX US
• Shamrock Capital in its sale of Mobilitie to BAI Communications and its strategic investment in Learn on Demand Systems
• MIRROR in its sale to lululemon athletica for $500 million
• Under Canvas in a strategic growth investment by KSL Capital Partners
• Johnson Controls in the sale of its Scott Safety business to 3M for $2 billion*
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition of TriMark USA from Warburg Pincus for $1.3 billion*
• The Carlyle Group in its $650 million sale of The MBS Group, a US film and TV studio real estate and production services company*
• Blackstone in numerous transactions – including its sale of a 25% stake in Hilton to HNA Group for $6.5 billion, its strategic minority investment in Francisco Partners and its acquisition of office assets from Hines Real Estate Investment Trust for $1.2 billion*
• KKR in numerous transactions – including a joint venture of its Prisma hedge fund unit with Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO)*
• Templar Energy in its comprehensive restructuring transaction resulting in the extinguishment of $1.45 billion in second lien debt and a new equity investment of $365 million*
• Heineken in its minority investment in Belize Brewing Company*
• Corporate Risk Holdings in the sale of its Kroll business to Duff & Phelps and the sale of HireRight to General Information Services, a General Atlantic portfolio company*
• Mars in its acquisition of Berkshire Hathaway’s minority interest in Wrigley*
• Genesee & Wyoming Railroad in its acquisition of Providence and Worcester Railroad Company*

*Representation handled prior to joining Cooley

Before joining Cooley, Izzy was a member of the mergers & acquisitions group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.