Alexandra Charron is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s corporate department with a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions. She advises both public and private company clients on a variety of complex domestic and cross-border transactions and governance matters. These transactions include mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, capital markets transactions and venture investments as well as various other strategic transactions. Alexandra also regularly counsels investment banks on financial advisory matters and advises venture backed and private equity portfolio companies on ongoing corporate and commercial matters. She has experience advising clients in the technology, life sciences, biotech, consumer products, fintech, travel and hospitality, and pharmaceutical industries, among others.
Experience
- Represented Regeneron in acquisition of 2seventy Bio, Inc.’s platforms to form new R&D unit Regeneron Cell Medicines.
- Represented Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceuticals business, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, in connection with various domestic and cross-boarder divestitures of pharmaceutical businesses.
- Represented TravelCenters of America Inc. in its $1.3 billion sale to BP p.l.c.
- Represented MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition of Linearizer Communications Group, a developer of high-performance microwave photonic solutions with avionic and space-based applications.
- Represented a leading global alternative asset management firm in responding to an activist investor.
- Represented Ginkgo Bioworks in connection with various life sciences acquisitions including its collaboration and carve-out transaction from Bayer AG to build an agricultural biologicals research & development platform.
- Represented a leader in data driven precision medicine in its acquisition of an artificial intelligence medical imaging company.
- Represented a leading medical technology company in connection with numerous acquisitions of medical technology and device companies.
- Represented a U.S. “buy now, pay later” (“BNPL”) platform in its agreement to be acquired by a leading global BNPL provider.
- Represented Crosspoint Capital Partners in its investment in Afero, a leading provider of an Internet of Things Platform as a Service.
- Represents a number of investment banks in their capacity as financial advisors on a variety of M&A transactions including the following recent transactions:
- Acquisition by Golub Capital BDC, Inc. of Golub Capital BDC 3, Inc.
- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ defense of an unsolicited takeover proposal by Choice Hotels
- Acquisition by Conn’s Inc. of W.S. Badcock
- Sale of Aveo Pharmaceuticals to LG Chem Ltd.
- Take-private sale of Chase Corporation to KKR for $1.3 billion.