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Scott Anthony is a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. He advises public and private companies, investment funds and entrepreneurs on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, strategic investments, joint ventures and other transactional matters. His clients include internet, social networking, online gaming, clean technology, software, networking and communications, semiconductor, energy storage and life sciences companies.
Mr. Anthony’s practice focuses on companies with connections between China and the US. It includes inbound and outbound cross-border acquisitions and strategic investments between US and China based companies, financing of venture backed companies based in China and the US and joint ventures with China based partners.
Mr. Anthony regularly advises private companies in connection with financing and general corporate activities including AccelOps, Inc., Centrillion BioScienses, LanzaTech New Zealand, Matrix Sensors and SinoElectric Powertrain.
Mr. Anthony's cross border expertise includes significant acquisitions and investments by China based companies of US companies as well as of China based target companies, including acquisitions by Tencent, Focus Media, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Spreadtrum Communications.
Mr. Anthony also regularly advises US listed public companies and foreign private issues on corporate governance and securities compliance issues.
Representative Matters
- Represented Tencent Holdings Limited in connection with its acquisition of Riot Games and its investment in Epic Games.
- Represented Salesforce.com in connection with its acquisition of Model Metrics.
- Represented Spreadtrum Communications in connection with its acquisition of Telegent Systems. Inc.
- Represented LanzaTech New Zealand Limited in its joint venture with Baosteel Co., Ltd.
- Represented Opulan Technologies Corp. in connection with its $100 million sale to Atheros.
- Represented China Mobile affiliate in connection with the sale of assets of Joint Innovation Labs to Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) Limited.
- Represented UTStarcom in its $36 million PIPE investment from Beijing E-Town International Investment & Development Co., Ltd.
Honors and Rankings
- Legal 500 US, Mergers, Acquisitions & Buyouts - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies (2013)
Publications and Speeches
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