Sarah K. Solum US Managing Partner and Head of US Capital Markets Financing and capital markets She does the work to get up to speed on the industry very quickly and in the room she almost becomes a banker, not just a lawyer, because of the diligent work that she puts in. Chambers 2021; Band 1 for Equity, Debt & Convertible Offerings Primary practice Financing and capital markets 02/10/2021 Sarah K. Solum | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer About Sarah K. Solum <p>Sarah has extensive experience in capital markets transactions, including IPOs, investment grade and high yield debt offerings, convertible notes transactions and preferred stock offerings. She also regularly represents companies on mergers and acquisitions and advises on SEC compliance, disclosure and corporate governance matters. </p> <p>Sarah was recently on the Global Advisory Board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) and a Co-Chair of the Northern California chapter. She was also a member of HiPower, an executive leadership program for women. </p> <p>Sarah is a member of the Board of Visitors at Duke University School of Law. She is also on the Board of Trustees at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School. Prior to joining Freshfields, Sarah was a partner at Davis Polk.</p> Recent work <p>Sarah advises issuers and underwriters in IPOs and a variety of other equity and debt capital markets transactions, including:</p> <ul> <li><strong>IPOs:</strong> AMIS Holdings, AppNet, Apropos, CAI International, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Coupa Software, DocuSign, Etsy, Fastly, Fortinet, Forty Seven, GoDaddy, Handspring, Homegrocer, iBeam, Kaiser Aluminum, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Pivotal Software, Razorfish, Responsys, SendGrid, ServiceSource International, Silver Spring Networks, Splunk, SunRun, Viant Technology and Zymergen.</li> <li><strong>Follow-on and other stock offerings:</strong> Atara, Catapult Communications, Chegg, Corcept Therapeutics, Coupa Software, DocuSign, E*TRADE, Endocyte, Fastly, GoDaddy, Mannkind, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Palm, Splunk, SVB Financial, Wet Seal and WinStar.</li> <li><strong>Convertible notes offerings:</strong> ADC Telecommunications, Affymetrix, Cadence, Chegg, Coupa Software, Cypress Semiconductor, DocuSign, E-house, Equinix, Fastly, Horizon Pharmaceuticals, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Pandora Media, Splunk, Wix.com and Zynga.</li> <li><strong>Investment-grade and high- yield note offerings:</strong> AMIS Holdings, Budget Group, El Paso Electric, E*TRADE, Kansas City Power & Light, Oracle, Raytheon, Seagate and SVB Financial.</li> </ul> <p>Sarah’s experience in mergers and acquisitions and other significant transactions includes advising:</p> <ul> <li>Pivotal Software on its sale to VMware.</li> <li>A founder/CEO of a major Internet company on the adoption of a dual class stock structure and related recapitalization.</li> <li>TriNet Group on its strategic investment from Atairos Group.</li> <li>Affymetrix on its sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific.</li> <li>FormFactor on its acquisition of Cascade Microtech.</li> <li>1-Page on its acquisition of Marianas Labs.</li> <li>Getty Investments on the take-private of Getty Images by Hellman & Friedman and subsequent acquisition by Carlyle.</li> <li>Sterling Financial on its recapitalization by Warburg Pincus and Thomas H. Lee Partners.</li> <li>Palm on the private placement of units of preferred stock and warrants to Elevation Partners.</li> <li>E*TRADE on its recapitalization by Citadel Investment Funds and subsequent equity sale/debt exchange.</li> <li>Affymetrix on its acquisitions of eBioscience, USB Corporation, True Materials and Panomics.</li> <li>Blue Coat Systems on its acquisition of Packeteer and its private placement of convertible notes and warrants.</li> <li>Oracle on its acquisitions of Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft.</li> <li>NetIQ on its sale to AttachmateWRQ.</li> <li>XcelleNet on its sale to Sybase.</li> </ul> Qualifications <p><strong>Education</strong></p> <ul> <li>J.D., Duke University School of Law, <em>magna cum laude</em>,02/10/2021 Order of the Coif, Member,Sarah K.DukeSolumLaw| Journal</li>Freshfields Bruckhaus<li>LL.M.,DeringerComparative and International Law, laude</em>, Order of the Coif, Member, Duke Law Journal</li> <li>LL.M., Comparative and International Law, Duke University School of Law</li> <li>BA., St. Olaf College, <em>summa cum laude</em>, Phi Beta Kappa</li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong><strong>Bar Admissions</strong></p> <ul> <li>State of California</li> <li>State of New York</li> </ul> Contact Sarah K. [email protected] Silicon Valley 2710 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA T T +1 650 618 9243 02/10/2021 Sarah K. Solum | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer .