Mara Goodman
Biography
Mara Goodman is an associate in the M&A group, based in the New York office. Mara advises US-based and multinational clients on a wide range of complex corporate transactions, with a particular focus on domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, investments, and strategic and private equity transactions.
Mara represents clients across a variety of industries, with a focus on transactions involving the technology, financial services, and life sciences and healthcare industries. She frequently advises on matters involving cryptocurrency and other digital assets, blockchain-enabled technologies and innovative technology-driven business models. She also guides clients on Japanese inbound transactions and leads other multijurisdictional deals involving complex commercial, regulatory, and governance considerations.
In addition to her transactional practice, Mara counsels management teams on internal restructurings and corporate governance matters.
Experience
Representative matters include:
Shionogi & Co, Ltd. on its strategic investment in connection with a joint research and development agreement with Salubritas Therapeutics.
Sage Software, Inc., a subsidiary of The Sage Group plc (SGEL), in connection with its acquisition of Criterion Inc.
DoorDash, Inc. (NASDAQ: DASH) on its acquisition of SevenRooms Inc., a New York-based hospitality technology company.
TravelPerk, a leader in business travel management, in connection with its acquisition of Yokoy, a fintech innovator specializing in AI-driven spend management solutions.
Brady Corporations, an international manufacturer and marketer of high-performance safety devices, printing systems and software, on its purchase of Funai Electric's thermal Inkjet microfluidics and related hardware research, development, and manufacturing business, located in the US, Japan, and the Philippines.
Bitstamp and its major shareholder NXMH on the sale of the crypto exchange to Robinhood.
Choice by Kingdom Trust, a leader in custodial services in the alternative asset space, in a business combination with Bitcoin IRA, a top provider of self-directed digital asset retirement accounts.
Cube, a global leader in automated regulatory intelligence and a portfolio company of HG capital, in its acquisition via a global carve-out of the regulatory businesses of Thomson Reuters.
Foresight on its acquisition of crypto information services company The Block.
Broadway Technology on the sale of its equity interests to Bloomberg.
Altonomy on the sale of its OTC trading platform for digital assets to Blockchain.com.
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation on its minority investment in Invivoscribe, Inc., a global provider of blood cancer testing kits and services.