Marissa Yu

About Marissa Yu

Marissa is an intellectual property senior associate based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Her practice focuses on intellectual property and technology transactions, with an emphasis on public and private cross-border mergers and acquisitions, licensing, strategic partnerships, and emerging technologies.

Marissa received the Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award for “Xerox/Fuji-Memeograph to the Board: Don’t Copy This” in the June 2018 of The M&A Lawyer.

Marissa is admitted to practice in New York and California and was previously based in the firm’s New York office.

Recent work

Her recent experience includes advising:

• CrowdStrike on its acquisition of Adaptive Shield.
• ServiceNow on its acquisition of Mission Secure.
• Zuora (NYSE: ZUO) on its pending $1.7 billion sale to Silver Lake and GIC.
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of PropertyGuru on its $1.1 billion take-private by EQT.
• Uber on its $950m acquisition of Delivery Hero’s foodpanda Delivery Business in Taiwan and $300m investment in Delivery Hero.
• The Yokohama Rubber Company on its pending $905m acquisition of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s off-the-road tire business.
• eBay on its acquisitions of Certilogo and TCGplayer, and on its simultaneous acquisition of Goldin Auctions LLC, sale of the eBay Vault to Collectors Universe, Inc. and ongoing commercial relationship with Collectors 
• ServiceNow on its acquisitions of Intella App and Era Software, Inc.
• Zuora, Inc. on its acquisitions of Sub(x) and Togai Inc.
• ABB in its acquisition of SEAM Group.
• BuzzFeed on its sale of Complex Networks to Commerce Media.
• Stanley Black & Decker on the $3.2bn sale of its security and healthcare segment to Securitas.
• Fresenius Helios on its $550 million acquisition of leading international fertility company Eugin Group from NMC Health.
• DiaSorin on its $1.8 billion acquisition of Luminex and its sale of its Flow Cytometry & Imaging business to Cytek Biosciences, Inc.
• BorgWarner on the commercial agreements (contract manufacturing, supply and services) related to the carve-out of its Fuel Systems and Aftermarket units.
• StepStone GmbH / Appcast, Inc, on their acquisition of Bayard Advertising Agency, Inc.
• Volkswagen on various battery tech investments and related collaboration and development arrangements.
• Agilent on its sale of Resolution Bioscience to Exact Sciences Corporation.
• Aristocrat Leisure on its $1.2bn acquisition of Nasdaq-listed Neogames.
• Carlotz on its sale to Shift Technologies.
• TriNet on its acquisition of Zenefits from Francisco Partners and acquisition of Clarus R+D Solutions.
• Beiersdorf on its acquisition of premier beauty and skin care brand, Chantecaille and $550m acquisition of the Coppertone business from Bayer AG.
• Saint-Gobain on its $2.3bn acquisition of GCP Applied Technologies.
• Sitel Group on its $2.2bn take-private of Sykes Enterprises.
• Sandvik on its acquisitions of PDQ Workholding and DWFritz Automation.
• Honeywell on the combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum Computing and acquisition of a majority stake in the combined company.
• Siemens on its $700m acquisition of Supplyframe.
• Zymergen on its IPO, conversion to a public benefit corporation and other corporate law matters.
• Axel Springer on its acquisition of POLITICO.
• AstraZeneca on its $39bn acquisition of Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
• Google on its $4.5bn transaction with Jio Platforms.
• Royal Caribbean Group on the all-cash carve-out of its Azamara cruise line to Sycamore Partners, including its three-ship fleet and associated intellectual property.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise on its $925m acquisition of Silver Peak, the leading software-defined wide area networks company.
• Mast-Jagermeister on its investment in, and its exclusive distribution arrangements for, Teremana® tequila, the brand founded by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
• CVC Capital Partners on its $1.375bn acquisition of Ontic, a leading provider of OEM-licensed parts for legacy aerospace platforms, from BBA Aviation.
• Volkswagen AG on its $2.6bn investment in Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle technology company.
• Novartis on its $5.3bn acquisition of Xiidra from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
• InterContinental Hotels Group on its $300 million acquisition of Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas from Pegasus Capital Advisors.
• Starbucks Corporation on its $7.15bn global coffee alliance with Nestlé.