Amber Banks

amber.banks@lw.com

+1.212.906.1221

Profile

Amber Banks advises private equity firms, strategic buyers and sellers, and companies on a range of investments, acquisitions, divestitures, and other complex corporate matters.

A recognized industry leader, Amber has been named a David Rockefeller Fellow and has presented at Harvard Business School’s Women in Investing Event and Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference

Before joining Latham, Amber was a partner at another leading global law firm.

Experience

Amber’s experience includes advising:

Permira on its:
- US$6.9 billion take-private of Squarespace
- Acquisition of a majority stake in BioCatch
- Acquisition of Encore Fire Protection
- Minority acquisition in Versaterm
- Investment in Tract
- Investment in Informatica
- Investment in Genesys Cloud Services
- Investment in Minted
- US$14 billion acquisition of McAfee*
- US $150 million investment in AllTrails*
- US$5.8 billion take-private acquisition of Mimecast*
- US$10.2 billion take-private of Zendesk*
- Investment in Relativity*
- Participation in Carta’s Series G-1 funding round*
- Acquisition of a majority of Seismic*
- US$2.5 billion acquisition of Lytx*
Informatica on its US$8.9 billion sale to Salesforce
CenterWell, the healthcare services business of Humana, on its acquisition of The Villages Health assets
McAfee in its acquisition of Mine
Mimecast in its:
- Acquisition of Nullable
- Acquisition of Code42 Software
- Acquisition of Elevate Security
Circa Lighting, a subsidiary of Visual Comfort & Co., in its acquisition of assets owned by System 7 Technology Design
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. on its:
- Acquisition of Graduate Hotels
- Joint venture acquisition of a majority stake in Sydell Group
Simon Properties Group, as part of a consortium of Authentic Brands Group and Brookfield Properties, on acquiring assets of Forever 21 and certain of its subsidiaries*
Jacobs Engineering Group on its:
- US$3.3 billion sale of its Energy, Chemicals, and Resources (ECR) segment to WorleyParsons Limited*
- US$2.9 billion acquisition of CH2M Hill*
- US$815 million acquisition of KeyW*
- Acquisition of Blacklynx*
- Sale of certain assets to LJA Engineering*
Tapestry (formerly Coach) on its US$2.4 billion acquisition of Kate Spade*
Visual Comfort & Co. on its sale to a consortium led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Leonard Green & Partners*
Humana in its acquisition of One Homecare Solutions*
Nant Capital in its US$590 million acquisition of Los Angeles Times Communications, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and the other titles*