Spencer Cohen

Spencer Cohen is a senior associate in the New York office and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group.

• Engagements

  Representation of the following clients in select transactions:

  • Vitech Systems Group, in its majority stake acquisition by CVC Capital Partners.

  • Warburg Pincus, in its acquisition of Qualifacts.

  • German DAX 30 company, in its acquisition of a US-based technology business.

  • CoorsTek, Inc. and its affiliates, in multiple acquisitions, dispositions and corporate reorganizations.

  • 9th Street Capital, LLC and its portfolio companies, in multiple acquisitions and dispositions, including MAD Greens, Snappy Salads, MJB Wood Group and Liberty Woods International.

  • TheStreet, Inc. (Nasdaq: TST) in its sale to TheMaven, Inc. (OTC: MVEN).

  • Real estate technology company, in various acquisitions including a cloud-based software company and several real-estate brokerages.

  • RAG-Stiftung Investment Company and its portfolio companies, in various transactions, including its acquisitions of Alfa Tech Consulting Enterprises, SecurView, Inc. and Invotech Engineering.

  • Unity Electric Co. in various acquisitions and dispositions.

  • Stitch, Inc. in its sale to Talend, Inc.

  • Aptean, including in its acquisitions of GQ Life Sciences and irms|360 Enterprise Solutions.

  • Various acquisitions and dispositions for Wafra Partners, LLC, the direct equity division of Wafra Investment Advisory Group, Inc.

  • InfoVista and Apax Partners, in their acquisition of Ascom Network Testing.

  • Amorim Holding II in the sale of a stake in Tom Ford International.

  • IFM Investors Pty. Ltd., global fund manager, in its $5.72 billion acquisition of ITR Concession Company, LLC a group which operates the Indiana Toll Road.

  • Zemanta Holdings, Inc., in its sale to Outbrain Inc.

  • Telenor Group, in its $360M acquisition of TapAd, Inc.

  • XO Group Inc. (NYSE: XOXO), in its acquisition of GigMasters.com.

  • LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSN), in its $65 million acquisition of Contact At Once!, LLC.

  • Naturex SA and its worldwide affiliates, in several transactions related to its industrial food business.

  • Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques, in its $150 million acquisition of Pinova, Inc.

  • Canal+ Groupe, in its acquisition of Alterna’TV International Corporation.

  • DrugDev Inc. in its acquisition of TrialNetworks.

  • Morgan Stanley and Barclays, in the $130 million initial public offering of Rapid7, Inc., a provider of security data and analytics solutions.

  • Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank, in the $230 million initial public offering of OnDeck Capital, Inc., an online alternative finance company.

  • BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi Group, BMO Capital Markets, Needham & Company, Wedbush PacGrow Life Sciences, ThinkEquity LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities and Goldman, Sachs & Company, in multiple follow-on equity offerings of Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development stage biopharmaceutical company. 

  • Deutsche Bank Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, William Blair & Company, JMP Securities, Raymond James & Associates and Needham & Company, in the $137.8 million NASDAQ initial public offering and the $121 million follow-on offering of Paylocity, Inc., a provider of cloud-based payroll and human capital management (HCM) software solutions. 

  • Goldman, Sachs & Company, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, Canaccord Genuity, Piper Jaffray and Raymond James, in the $130.8 million NASDAQ initial public offering and $109.9 million follow-on offering of Benefitfocus, Inc., a provider of cloud-based benefits software solutions for consumers, employers, insurance carriers, and brokers.