Cristina Lombardi

Cristina’s experience includes advising on a range of strategic and sponsor-driven mergers and acquisitions transactions, including:

Strategic M&A

• Mediawan on its acquisition of North Road Company
• Authentic Brands Group on its approximately US$1.4 billion acquisition of a majority stake in the intellectual property of Guess?, Inc.
• IAA, Inc. on its acquisition by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated*
• Longboard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on its sale to H. Lundbeck A/S*
• NeoPhotonics Corporation on its sale to Lumentum Holdings Inc.*
• Bluejay Therapeutics, Inc. on its acquisition by Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in a transaction valued at over US$620 million
• Sol de Janeiro on its sale to L’Occitane Group*
• Nutrafol, Inc. on its sale to Unilever*
• Summer Fridays on its strategic growth equity investment from TSG Consumer Partners*
• Snowflake Inc. on its acquisition of Neeva*
• Snowflake Inc. on its acquisition of Samooha*
• TCGplayer, Inc. on its sale to eBay Inc.*
• Freshworks, Inc. on its acquisition of Device42*
• Automattic Inc. on its acquisition of Beeper*

Sponsor M&A

• Apollo Global Management on its approximately US$1.25 billion preferred equity investment in McKesson Corporation’s Medical-Surgical Solutions business
• Ares Management on the acquisition of Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc. by Makarora
• Haveli Investments on its acquisition of Couchbase, Inc., a provider of NoSQL cloud database platforms for enterprise applications, in a take-private transaction
• Haveli Investments on its majority investment in Sirion, an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham