Bethany Weitzman focuses her practice on general corporate matters, including venture capital financings and mergers and acquisitions.
Bethany’s representative M&A experience includes advising private companies in domestic and cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, and stock and asset transactions. She represents clients across a variety of industries, including financial services, defense, cybersecurity, technology, media and entertainment, health care, life sciences, food and beverage, and consumer goods.
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In the emerging companies and venture capital space, Bethany represents early- and growth-stage companies, venture capital funds and strategic investors in venture financings and private transactions.
Bethany counsels startups and private companies through the various stages of their life cycle, including formation and early financings to growth, restructuring and strategic exits (e.g., mergers and acquisitions).
Prior to joining Pillsbury, Bethany was an attorney at the New York office of an international law firm. Before attending law school, she worked at one of Silicon Valley’s preeminent venture capital and technology law firms, both at its Palo Alto and New York offices.
Bethany is admitted in New York only. She is practicing under the supervision of DC bar members.
Representative Experience
Prior to and since joining Pillsbury, Bethany’s notable representations include:
- Represented Own Company in its sale of its equity interest to Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) for approximately $1.9 billion in cash, net of the value of the approximately 10% of outstanding shares currently owned by Salesforce.
- Represented Slipstream Group Co., a global music licensing platform, in its acquisition of Anthem Entertainment’s production music portfolio, consisting of Jingle Punks, 5 Alarm Music and Cavendish Music.
- Represented Hidden Level, a leader in passive radar and radio frequency sensing technology, in securing $100 million across its Series B and C funding rounds.
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- Represented Evernex in its acquisition of Comptest.
- Represented Rexera, an agentic AI company focused on real-estate operations, on its acquisition by RealPage, a global provider of AI-enabled software platforms to the real estate industry and part of the Thoma Bravo portfolio since 2021.
- Represented Kiremko Group B.V., Idaho Steel Products Inc. and Reyco Systems Inc. in the sale of their respective equity to Investindustrial.
- Represented buyer in the acquisition of equity interests in a regulated biomedical waste company as part of a strategic reorganization and ownership restructuring.
- Represented the buyer in the acquisition of all equity interests in a manufacturer of portable lifesaving medical devices.
- Represented buyer of energy management and smart building technology company pursuant to a plan of merger.
- Represented the buyer of the assets of a custom-injection molding company.
- Represented all equity interests in a technology platform company specializing in the development of laser-based gas analyzers and leak detection systems.
- Represented a health care compliance analytics platform in its sale to a plan of merger.
- Represented a leading Dutch technology company in its cross-border sale to a private equity fund.
- Represented a satellite communications technology company in its sale of its equity interests for a combination of cash and stock.
- Represented a venture capital firm in its Series B financing round in investment in a defense software company.
- Represented a venture capital firm in its Series Seed financing round in investment in an AI-powered software produced by ARTIV.
- Represented a fast-growing food company franchisor in its Series B financing round.
- Represented a venture capital firm in its Series B financing round in investment in an AI-powered platform.
- Represented a home financing startup platform in its Series A financing round.
- Represented a medical technology company in its Series A financing and its bank loan.
- Represented a global private markets investment management firm in its acquisition of equity interests in private market portfolios through multiple secondary transactions.
- Represented Dentsply Sirona in its public offering of $550 million junior subordinated notes.
- Represented Yorkville Acquisition in its initial public offering of 17,250,000 units at $10 per unit, totaling $172.5 million.
- Represented underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, William Blair & Company L.L.C. and TD Securities (USA) LLC, on a $108 million underwritten offering of common stock for Grid Dynamics Holdings.
- Represented Injective Foundation in its $100 million Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) transaction into Pineapple Financial.
Education
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J.D., Cornell Law School, 2023
B.A., Colby College, 2014
Admissions
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New York