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Sherrie Quinn 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 <p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;">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.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;">Prior to joining Freshfields, Sherrie was an associate in the San Francisco office of Goodwin Procter, where she represented iconic venture capital firms and<span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span>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.</p> Recent work <h3>Capital Markets</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://news.freshfields.com/profiles/Global/r/6105/freshfields_serves_as_issuer_s_counsel_to_zymergen_on_its">Zymergen on its Initial Public Offering as a public benefit corporation valued over $4bn</a></li> <li><a href="http://news.freshfields.com/en/Global/r/5938/freshfields_advises_goldman_sachs___co__llc_in_connection">Goldman Sachs as underwriters on Coupa Software&rsquo;s $516m public offering of common stock</a></li> </ul> <h3>Mergers &amp; Acquisitions&nbsp;</h3> <ul> <li>Vlocity on its $1.33bn sale to Salesforce</li> <li>BEFORE Brands on its sale option to Nestl&eacute; Health Science</li> <li>CaseStack on its $255m sale to Hub Group</li> <li>Qriously on its sale to Brandwatch</li> </ul> <h3>Company Representation</h3> <ul> <li>BEFORE Brands on equity investments from Nestl&eacute; Health Science and Gurnet Point Capital</li> <li>Recurly on its $19.5m financing from F-Prime Capital, Polaris Partners, Greycroft, and Silicon Valley Bank</li> <li>Pavilion Data Systems on its $25m Series C financing from Taiwania Capital, RPS Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers, and Artiman Ventures</li> <li>Light Field Lab on its $28m Series A financing from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Taiwania Venture Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures</li> <li>Cleave Therapeutics on its Series B2 financing from U.S. Venture Partners, OrbiMed Private Investments, 5AM Ventures, and Celgene Corporation</li> <li>Menlo Security on its $75m Series D financing from JP Morgan Asset Management, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Osage University Partners</li> <li>Arch Oncology on its $50m Series B financing from Lightchain, RiverVest Venture Partners, Roche Venture Fund, and 3x5 Partners</li> <li>NumberAI on its Series A financing by Costanoa Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Google&rsquo;s AI-focused Gradient Ventures fund</li> <li>Matters for Slack, Caliva, Padlet, and Veryable</li> </ul> <h3>Venture Capital&nbsp;</h3> <ul> <li>Andreessen Horowitz / a16z as lead investor on the Series B Preferred Stock financing of Labelbox</li> <li>Greylock Partners as lead investor on the Series A Preferred Stock financing of Chronosphere, as lead investor on the<span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span>Series B Preferred Stock financing of PayJoy, on its investment in Abnormal Security Corporation, and on several Series Seed investments</li> <li>Coatue Management as lead investor on the $210m Series B Preferred Stock financing of OneTrust at a $2.7bn valuation</li> <li>Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers as lead investor on the Series A Preferred Stock financing of Dust Identity, and in several Scout Fund investments</li> <li>Bond Capital as co-lead investor on the $140m Series C Preferred Stock financing of Relativity Space,<span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span>and as lead investor in the $100m Series D Preferred Stock financing of Hippo Analytics at a $1bn valuation</li> <li>Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures as co-lead investors in OverOps</li> <li>Norwest Venture Partners on its $45m growth equity investment in Vuori</li> <li>Tribe Capital as co-lead investor on the $140m Series C Preferred Stock financing of27/09/2021Relativity Space</li> <li>Bain CapitalSherrieVentures,Quinn |AccelFreshfieldsPartners,BruckhausBMW iVentures,Deringer White Owl Capital Partners, of Relativity Space</li> <li>Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, BMW iVentures, White Owl Capital Partners, Catapult Ventures, and Village Global on a variety of matters</li> </ul> Qualifications <p><u>Education </u></p> <ul> <li>University of California, Berkeley</li> <ul> <li>J.D., 2018</li> <li><em>Berkeley Business Law Journal</em>, Senior Supervising Editor</li> <li>Business Law Certificate</li> </ul> <li>University of Toronto</li> <ul> <li>HBA <em>with High Distinction</em>, 2013</li> </ul> </ul> <p><u>Bar Administration</u></p> <p>State Bar of California</p> 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 .
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