Brian Robert Umanoff

Mr. Umanoff’s experience includes representing:

Technology

• Ka’ena Corporation and its affiliated brands, Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile, in its up to US$1.35 billion acquisition by T-Mobile
• Switch, Inc. in its US$11 billion acquisition by affiliates of DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors
• Cloudways in its US$350 million acquisition by DigitalOcean Holdings
• Planet Labs in its US$2.8 billion business combination with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV
• Joby Aviation in its US$4.5 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners, and in Joby’s acquisition of Uber Technologies’ aerial ridesharing business, Uber Elevate
• Ouster in its US$1.9 billion business combination with Colonnade Acquisition Corp., and in Ouster’s acquisition of Sense Photonics
• Virgin Galactic Holdings in its US$1.5 billion business combination with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp.
• Dragoneer Investment Group in connection with a number of venture capital investments

Healthcare and Life Sciences

• Ligand Pharmaceuticals in its spinoff of OmniAb and concurrent US$850 million business combination of OmniAb with Avista Public Acquisition Corp. II
• Obagi in connection with Waldencast Acquisition Corp.’s simultaneous US$1.2 billion acquisition of Obagi and Milk Makeup
• Siemens Healthineers in its US$16.4 billion acquisition of Varian Medical Systems
• Ra Pharmaceuticals in its US$2.1 billion acquisition by UCB Pharma
• Piper Sandler & Co., as financial advisor to Neovasc, in connection with Neovasc’s up to US$147 million acquisition by Shockwave Medical
• J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as financial advisor to Sumitovant Biopharma and Sumitomo Pharma, in connection with Sumitovant’s US$1.7 billion acquisition of Myovant Sciences
• Perella Weinberg Partners LP, financial advisor to Orthofix Medical, in connection with the merger of equals between Orthofix and SeaSpine Holdings
• Guggenheim Securities, LLC, as financial advisor to Wright Medical, in connection with Stryker Corporation’s US$5.4 billion acquisition of Wright Medical

Real Estate

• William Lyon Homes in its US$2.5 billion acquisition by Taylor Morrison Home Corporation
• Landsea Homes in its acquisition of Pinnacle West Homes