Sherrie Quinn
Associate Corporate and M&A, Financing and capital markets
Primary practice
Corporate and M&A, Financing and capital markets
27/09/2021 Sherrie Quinn | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer About Sherrie Quinn
Sherrie is a corporate associate in Silicon Valley. She represents leading technology and life sciences companies in the software/SaaS, hardware, digital media, biotech, and internet industries. Her representation of companies spans the corporate lifecycle, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, divestitures, financings, and other strategic transactions.
Prior to joining Freshfields, Sherrie was an associate in the San Francisco office of Goodwin Procter, where she represented iconic venture capital firms and emerging and later-stage companies in the software, technology, and life sciences industries throughout their corporate life cycle, including pre-incorporation planning, general corporate representation and counseling, venture capital financings, and mergers and acquisitions.
Recent work
Capital Markets
- Zymergen on its Initial Public Offering as a public benefit corporation valued over $4bn
- Goldman Sachs as underwriters on Coupa Software’s $516m public offering of common stock
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Vlocity on its $1.33bn sale to Salesforce
- BEFORE Brands on its sale option to Nestlé Health Science
- CaseStack on its $255m sale to Hub Group
- Qriously on its sale to Brandwatch
Company Representation
- BEFORE Brands on equity investments from Nestlé Health Science and Gurnet Point Capital
- Recurly on its $19.5m financing from F-Prime Capital, Polaris Partners, Greycroft, and Silicon Valley Bank
- Pavilion Data Systems on its $25m Series C financing from Taiwania Capital, RPS Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Artiman Ventures
- Light Field Lab on its $28m Series A financing from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Taiwania Venture Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures
- Cleave Therapeutics on its Series B2 financing from U.S. Venture Partners, OrbiMed Private Investments, 5AM Ventures, and Celgene Corporation
- Menlo Security on its $75m Series D financing from JP Morgan Asset Management, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Osage University Partners
- Arch Oncology on its $50m Series B financing from Lightchain, RiverVest Venture Partners, Roche Venture Fund, and 3x5 Partners
- NumberAI on its Series A financing by Costanoa Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures fund
- Matters for Slack, Caliva, Padlet, and Veryable
Venture Capital
- Andreessen Horowitz / a16z as lead investor on the Series B Preferred Stock financing of Labelbox
- Greylock Partners as lead investor on the Series A Preferred Stock financing of Chronosphere, as lead investor on the Series B Preferred Stock financing of PayJoy, on its investment in Abnormal Security Corporation, and on several Series Seed investments
- Coatue Management as lead investor on the $210m Series B Preferred Stock financing of OneTrust at a $2.7bn valuation
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as lead investor on the Series A Preferred Stock financing of Dust Identity, and in several Scout Fund investments
- Bond Capital as co-lead investor on the $140m Series C Preferred Stock financing of Relativity Space, and as lead investor in the $100m Series D Preferred Stock financing of Hippo Analytics at a $1bn valuation
- Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures as co-lead investors in OverOps
- Norwest Venture Partners on its $45m growth equity investment in Vuori
- Tribe Capital as co-lead investor on the $140m Series C Preferred Stock financing of27/09/2021Relativity Space
- Bain CapitalSherrieVentures,Quinn |AccelFreshfieldsPartners,BruckhausBMW iVentures,Deringer White Owl Capital Partners, of Relativity Space
- Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, BMW iVentures, White Owl Capital Partners, Catapult Ventures, and Village Global on a variety of matters
Qualifications
Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- J.D., 2018
- Berkeley Business Law Journal, Senior Supervising Editor
- Business Law Certificate
- University of Toronto
- HBA with High Distinction, 2013
Bar Administration
State Bar of California
Contact Sherrie [email protected]
Silicon Valley 2710 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA T +1 650 618 9250
27/09/2021 Sherrie Quinn | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer