Max Hyatt

Senior Associate

San Francisco

Max Hyatt, a Senior Associate in the San Francisco office, is a member of Orrick's M&A and Private Equity group.

Max advises public and private companies through a wide range of strategic transactions, including complex merger and acquisition transactions, debt and equity investments, joint ventures, internal reorganizations, and global expansions. Max's background includes working with early stage start-ups and competing in international Motorsports.

Prior to joining Orrick, Max was an associate at Baker McKenzie.

    • Intersect in its US$4.75 billion acquisition by Alphabet.
    • Banneker Partners and its portfolio companies in various M&A and growth equity transactions.
    • Turn/River Capital in several transactions, including its strategic investment in Paessler AG; the acquisitions of Redwood International Business Group BV, Teli Communications, Paramount Technologies, and Advanced Systems Concepts; and the sales of Redwood Software, CoSoSys and Invicti Security Corp.
    • Galaxy Digital in its acquisition of the assets of GK8 Ltd in connection with the Celsius Networks bankruptcy.
    • Toyota in its investments in Pony.ai, Didi, and a series of confidential non-public transactions in the Mobility space.
    • Workday in its acquisition of Zimit.
    • Zynga in its acquisition of Chartboost.
    • Trimble Navigation in its acquisition of Azteca Systems LLC (dba “Cityworks”), and certain other confidential non-public transactions.
    • Bayer AG in connection with the acquisition of BlueRock Therapeutics; its cumulative investment of over $50 million in One Drop as lead investor in One Drop's Series B and Series C financings; its Unfold Bio joint venture with Temasek; and several other strategic investments of Leaps by Bayer in an array of emerging growth life science companies.
    • Medtronic plc in the sale of its Patient Care, Deep Vein Thrombosis (Compression), and Nutritional Insufficiency businesses to Cardinal Health Inc. (international aspects only).
    • Symantec Corporation in the sale of its information management business (dba “Veritas”) to The Carlyle Group (international aspects only).
    • Evergrande Healthcare Industry Group Limited in its investment for a controlling stake in Farraday Future, a US electric vehicle manufacturer.
    • Nuance Communications, Inc. in the sale of its document imaging division to Kofax, Inc. (international aspects only).
    • Numerous publicly traded multinational companies on the planning and implementation of global spin-off, post-acquisition integration and reorganization transactions in over 70 jurisdictions.