Jane Ross
Office Managing Partner Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Legal 500"A wonderful M&A lawyer... a pragmatic straight-shooter, cost effective and driven to achieve great results for her clients."
Jane Ross represents buyers and sellers of public and private companies across many industries, with a focus on the technology and life sciences sectors.
Jane has handled multibillion-dollar transactions for many of Silicon Valley's most recognizable industry-leading technology companies, as well as major global companies in the areas of life sciences and digital health. Her practice includes domestic and cross-border M&A and complex joint venture transactions.
Jane was named "Best in Mergers and Acquisitions" by Euromoney's Women in Business Law Awards in 2015, and The Legal 500 recognizes her as a standout in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, describing her as "a wonderful M&A lawyer" who is "a pragmatic straight-shooter, cost effective, and driven to achieve great results for her clients."
Among her many accolades, Expert Guides recognized her as an "expert" in M&A by "Women in Business Law" in 2022. California Lawyer magazine also recognized her as one of its 2012 "California Attorneys of the Year," and IFLR1000 has also named her as a "Highly regarded" lawyer for M&A and technology and telecommunications in the U.S. for 2023. Jane was also included in the Daily Journal's prestigious list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2020.
Chambers USA"She wows everyone with her intellectual horsepower and can anticipate what I'm thinking. She's one of the finest technical lawyers I've ever worked with. She has remarkable talent."
Representative experience
Walmart on several acquisitions, including its pending US$2.3bn aquisition of VIZIO and its US$16bn acquisition of a majority stake in Flipkart
Intel on the sale of minority interests in its US$860m IMS Nanofabrication GmbH business to Bain Capital, TSMC and Jeol Ltd
Intel Corporation on several acquisitions, including its US$15.4bn acquisition of Altera* and its US$900m acquisition of Moovit
Adobe on multiple transactions, including its US$4.75bn acquisition of Marketo and its US$1.68bn acquisition of Magento Commerce
eBay on multiple transactions, including its US$2.4bn acquisition and subsequent sale of GSI Commerce* and its acquisition of Giosis Pte Ltd's Japanese ecommerce business, including the Qoo10 platform
Gilead on multiple transactions, including its approximate US$1.4bn acquisition of CV Therapeutics and its US$600m acquisition of Calistoga Pharmaceuticals*
Jazz Pharmaceuticals' US$1bn acquisition of Gentium S.p.A.*
Meta / Facebook on multiple transactions, including its US$16bn acquisition of WhatsApp* and its US$5.7bn investment in Jio Platforms Limited in India
Novartis on its acquisition of Amblyotech
PayPal on multiple transaction, including its acquisition and subsequent sale of Happy Returns and its acquisition of Chargehound
Salesforce on multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Datorama and Bonobo AI
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
- LL.B., McGill University, with distinction, 1997
- B.C.L., McGill University, with distinction, 1997
- B.Com., McGill University, 1993
- California
- Quebec