Jake Sendar focuses his practice on general corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings and securities transactions.

Jake works with a variety of public and private company clients, including tech companies and startups, primarily in the artificial intelligence, SaaS, fintech, semiconductor, life sciences and blockchain/cryptocurrency sectors.

Representative Experience

  • Represented Immersion Corporation, the world leading innovator of touch feedback technology, in connection with its $50 million ATM equity offering and entering into a definitive agreement with Barnes & Noble Education Inc. and certain of the company’s existing shareholders and strategic partners, which included Barnes & Noble receiving gross proceeds of $95 million of new equity capital through a $50 million new equity investment led by Immersion and a $45 million fully backstopped equity rights offering.
  • Represented Provino Technologies Inc., a developer of network-on-chip systems for machine learning, in connection with its acquisition by Google.
  • Represented Coursera Inc., an online education provider, in connection with its $519 million IPO.

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  • Representative VC Financings/Fundings Experience
    • Represented Invent Analytics Inc., an award-winning global retail planning solutions provider, in connection with its $17 million Series B funding led by LFX Venture Partners.
    • Represented Alpha Praetorian Capital as lead investor in connection with its investment in INFLUENCE’s $20.8 million Series Seed financing.
    • Represented Petvisor, a veterinary and pet services business management and client engagement software platform, in connection with its $100 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds.
    • Represented Nirmata Inc., a provider of enterprise solutions for cloud-native security and governance of Kubernetes, in connection with its $4 million pre-Series A financing led by Z5 Capital.
    • Represented Infinitus Systems Inc. the leading VoiceRPA company for automating phone calls in healthcare, in connection with its $30 million Series B financing led by GV.
    • Represented Quintar Inc., the developer of an augmented reality technology platform, in connection with its Series Seed financing.
  • Representative Mergers & Acquisitions Experience
    • Represented Mobiveil Inc., a specialized embedded engineering services firm, in connection with its acquisition by GlobalLogic Inc.
    • Represented Nordic Semiconductor ASA, a fabless semiconductor company, in connection with its acquisition of the IP portfolio of Atlazo, Inc.
    • Represented NEUCA SA, the Poland-based pharmaceutical distributor and parent company of Clinscience, in its partnership with OncoBay Clinical Inc.
    • Represented Concentrix Corporation, a leading global provider of customer experience (CX) services and technologies, in connection with its $131 million acquisition of ServiceSource International Inc.
    • Represented Taulia Inc., a fintech provider of working capital management solutions, in connection with its acquisition by SAP SE.
    • Represented Oski Technology, a formal verification services company, in connection with its $131 million acquisition by NVIDIA Corp.
    • Represented Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of electronic components, in connection with its acquisition of Eta Wireless Inc.
  • Representative Securities Offerings
    • Represented Interactive Strength Inc., a digital fitness platform, in connection with its $12 million IPO.

Professional Highlights

  • Prior to his legal career, Jake was a software developer for technology startups in the Washington, DC, area.

Education

  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2020

    B.A., Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2012

Admissions

  • California