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Alex Aber
Partner Corporate & Finance
Alex has been recognized for his M&A work by Chambers USA, IFLR1000, Legal 500 US, and by The M&A Advisor in its 5th annual 40 Under 40 awards program.
Alex also advises founders and management of - and investors in - early stage and mature technology and life science companies on a broad range of matters including corporate governance, equity and debt financing transactions, technology licensing and joint ventures.
Alex currently serves as Co-Chair of the M&A Committee of the Business Transaction Section of the Boston Bar Association.
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) on its acquisition of Moogsoft, an AI-driven provider of intelligent monitoring solutions that support DevOps and ITOps.
Commvault Systems (Nasdaq: CVLT) on various acquisitions, including Appranix, Inc., a provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions, and Clumio, a cloud‑native data protection company.
UKG on various acquisitions, including on its acquisition of Inova Payroll, a global HR AI platform, and Shiftboard, an employee scheduling platform for mission-critical operations.
Dynatrace, an AI-powered observability platform, on its acquisition of Bindplane, a modern telemetry pipeline built on open standards that acts as a control plane for data from disparate sources.
Pronetx, a customer experience firm specializing in Amazon Connect and AWS‑native omnichannel solutions, on its sale to Caylent, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner.
Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) on various acquisitions, including its acquisition of Ondat, a cloud-based storage technology provider, and its acquisition of content delivery assets from Edgio.
Charles River Associates (Nasdaq: CRAI) on its acquisition of bioStrategiesGroup, a healthcare commercial strategy consulting firm.
OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, on its acquisition of Ionic.
Go1, the Australia-based EdTech unicorn, in various acquisitions, including on its acquisition of mobile learning app Blinkist, AI-powered EdTech Anders Pink, and Swiss-French EdTech Coorpacademy
Celonis SE on its acquisition of Symbio, an innovative provider of AI-driven business process management software.
Ovia Health, a digital health company focused on maternity and family benefits for employers and health plans, on its sale to Labcorp (NYSE: LH).*
Shift4 Payments (NYSE: FOUR) on its acquisition of stadium app provider VenueNext.*
Altman Vilandrie & Company on its merger with Solon Management Consulting to form Altman Solon, the world’s largest TMT-focused consulting firm.*
Recorded Future, a security intelligence company, on its sale of a controlling interest in the company valued at more than US$780m to Insight Partners.
Inovalon Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: INOV) on its US$1.2bn acquisition of ABILITY Network, a leading cloud-based Software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology company.*
Dell Technologies on its US$145.8m sale of Mozy, Inc., a cloud backup solutions company, to Carbonite, Inc. (Nasdaq: CARB).*
Dell EMC on the US$1.62bn sale of EMC’s enterprise content division to Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX; TSX: OTC).*
Staples, Inc. (NYSE: SPLS) on the sale of its Staples Print Solutions business to Taylor Communications, Inc.*
Shopify Inc. (NYSE: SHOP; TSE: SH) on its acquisition of Kit CRM Inc, a virtual marketing assistant for business owners.*
SOFAR S.p.A. on the sale of its surgical robotics division to TransEnterix (NYSE: TRXC).*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.