Morgan E. Brubaker

Morgan’s experience includes advising:

Digital Infrastructure

• Silver Lake in its US$9.2 billion equity investment (along with DigitalBridge Group, Inc.) in Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses.
• Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO), in its US$250 million investment in Scala Data Centers, a leading Latin American sustainable data center platform in the Hyperscale market.
• Synaptics in its acquisition of assets and non-exclusive licenses from Broadcom relating to Wi-Fi 8, ultra-wideband, Wi-Fi 7, advanced Bluetooth, and next-generation GPS/GNSS products and technology for IoT and Android ecosystem.
• Apollo in the acquisition of a majority interest in Stream Data Centers, a leading developer and operator of hyperscale data center campuses
• Lenders in connection with a special purpose GPU financing vehicle of up to US$500 million for Lambda to fund the expansion of its on-demand cloud offering.
• Lenders in senior secured debt financing for Applied Digital Corporation, (a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation data centers).
• Lenders in connection with multiple multi-billion dollar delayed draw term loan financings to multiple borrowers, including for NScale, CoreWeave, IREN, and Lambda
• Lenders to NScale in multiple data center financings

Transportation/Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

• An autonomous vehicle technology company in several complex long-term agreements with strategic investors to supply and purchase vehicles, license technology, and operate and service vehicles for its future fleet
• Hyundai Motors in its acquisition of robotics design company Boston Dynamics, valued at US$1.1 billion
• Hyundai Motors in its innovative partnership with Aptiv to develop and commercialize autonomous vehicle technology
• A leading multinational automotive manufacturer in developing and implementing its electronic vehicle mobile application
• A publicly traded aerospace and defense company in strategic outsourcing agreements with third-party implementation and services providers for certain inventory management and data warehousing services
• Rivian Automotive, an electric vehicle manufacturer, in one of the largest technology IPOs to date
• A self-driving taxi company in several agreements related to developing a proprietary semiconductor chip and associated technology for use in its self-driving cars
• SiriusXM in procuring and launching several satellites
• Virgin Galactic in its de-SPAC merger with Social Capital Hedosophia
• Virgin Orbit in a de-SPAC merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II

Fintech

• Macquarie in US$500 million financing for Lambda
• Ares Management in its acquisition of Black Creek Group
• An investor in open API banking platform Belvo’s US$43 million Series A financing
• A large global bank in an agreement to implement a worldwide trading and risk management platform
• A large global bank in negotiating, developing, and implementing a worldwide currency trading platform
• A leading big-data and market structure technology provider in negotiating and implementing a consolidated audit trail plan processor agreement pursuant to SEC Rule 613
• A leading capital markets technology firm specializing in distributed ledger infrastructure in negotiating and implementing a trading network with multiple global investment banks
• A leading fixed income, derivatives, and electronic trading platform provider in contractual arrangements with customers, partners, and vendors
• A machine-learning technology startup in drafting form customer agreements for its forward analysis and hedging platform
• A startup managing and operating cryptocurrency trading solutions in contractual arrangements with partners, vendors, and banks
• Tagomi, a leading crypto brokerage platform, in its acquisition by Coinbase

Life Sciences and Healthcare

• Chardan Healthcare Acquisition 2 in its merger with Renovacor
• DXC Technology, an end-to-end IT services and solutions company, in the sales of its state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital and its global healthcare business to Dedalus
• Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in several large-scale multinational commercial transactions
• Siemens Healthineers in its acquisition of Varian Medical Systems, a US maker of devices and software for cancer treatments, valued at US$16.4 billion
• Talkspace in its merger with a SPAC sponsored by Hudson Executive Capital to form the only publicly traded pure play virtual behavioral health company