Jake Meninga advises clients on a broad range of transactional tax matters.

He has significant experience counselling private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, public and private companies, and investors in connection with the US federal income tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures, partnerships, financings, tax-free reorganizations and restructurings.

Jake speaks and writes about tax topics, including for the Tax Executives Institute, and is a co-author of Tax Management Portfolio 771 3rd Corporate Acquisitions - (A), (B), and (C) Reorganizations.

Jake’s experience includes representing:

Private Equity Sponsors

  • The Sterling Group in its acquisitions of or investments in HLSG Intermediate, Precision Concepts International, Comar, Pavement Preservation Group, and Vance Brothers, and the complete or partial dispositions of West Star Aviation, Frontline Road Safety and the Artisan Design Group
  • Apollo in its acquisitions of or investments in McKesson’s Medical-Surgical Solutions business and the GI Alliance
  • GreyLion Capital in its investments in Slipstream IT and Torginol
  • H.I.G. Capital in its acquisitions of RBmedia and Health E-Commerce

Strategic Transactions

  • Coinbase in its acquisitions of The Clearing Company, Echo, Deribit and One River Asset Management
  • Allison Transmission in its acquisition of Dana’s Off-Highway Business
  • Joby Aviation in its US$500 million acquisition of Resonant Sciences
  • Celestial AI in its acquisition by Marvell Technology
  • PathAI in its acquisition by Roche
  • Snowflake in its acquisitions of Crunchy Data and Observe
  • Health Catalyst in its divestiture of Vitalware to Med-Metrix
  • Bitwise Asset Management in its acquisition of Chorus One
  • Howden in its acquisition of Atlantic Global Risk
  • Relievant Medical Systems in its acquisition by Boston Scientific
  • Ouster in its merger of equals with Velodyne
  • Hippo Enterprises in its US$5 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners Z
  • Planet Labs in its US$2.8 billion business combination with dMY Technology Group IV
  • Boxed in its US$900 million merger with Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp.
  • Skillz in its US$150 million acquisition of Aarki-

Capital Markets, Financings and Restructurings

  • Wolfspeed in its financial restructuring and emergence from chapter 11 protection and the sale of US$379 million in convertible notes and US$96.9 million in common stock and pre-funded warrants
  • Rivian Automotive in its US$1.34 billion public offering of common stock
  • Airbnb in its US$2.5 billion senior notes offering
  • Allison Transmission in a US$500 million senior notes offering and US$1.2 billion senior secured incremental term loan facility
  • The initial purchasers in Mirum Pharmaceuticals’ US$600 million convertible senior notes offering
  • PDF Solutions in its upsized US$201 million public offering of common stock
  • Joby Aviation in upsized offerings of common stock and convertible senior notes

Bar Qualification

  • California
  • New York

Education

  • JD, Cornell Law School, 2018
    cum laude
  • BA, UCLA, 2014
    magna cum laude

Languages Spoken

  • English

Practices