Corporate and Securities partner and co-leader of Pillsbury’s Capital Markets practice, Davina Kaile has guided public companies and late-stage private companies across a wide range of sectors, including technology, e-commerce, life sciences, financial services and retail in many high-profile, multibillion- and multimillion-dollar deals.

Davina has extensive experience in capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and tender offers, reverse mergers, divestitures, going private transactions, SPAC and deSPAC transactions, SEC reporting and compliance, stockholder engagement and proxy matters, Section 16 and 13 reporting, and corporate governance and general corporate matters. She represents issuers, underwriters and placement agents in IPOs and follow-on offerings, shelf, registered direct, and confidentially marketed public offerings and other equity financing transactions, including Rights Offerings, PIPE, ATM, and equity line transactions, and represents acquirors, acquirees, and financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, strategic investments and divestitures, and de-SPAC transactions. Davina also has extensive experience advising on ‘33 and ‘34 Act reporting and compliance, proxy matters, stock exchange compliance and initiatives, and corporate governance issues, including in connection with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Dodd-Frank Act.

Representative Experience

  • Advised 1stdibs.com Inc. in its $132 million IPO with an underwriting group managed by BofA Securities and Barclays.
  • Advised Coursera Inc. in its $519 million IPO with an underwriting group managed by Morgan Stanley & Co. and Goldman Sachs & Co.
  • Represented Quantum in its $67.5 million oversubscribed Rights Offering, a deal honored as the 2022 Best Governance Around a Corporate Transaction by Corporate Secretary.

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  • Advised Rockley Photonics, Ltd. in its $1.2 billion merger with special purpose acquisition company SC Health Corp., resulting in Rockley becoming a publicly traded company on the NYSE (also represented Rockley in its $150 million financing as part of its merger with a SPAC, which was led by top-tier institutional investors, including Senvest Management LLC and UBS O’Connor and participation from Medtronic).
  • Represented Movella Inc. in its $537 million business combination with special purpose acquisition company Pathfinder Acquisition Corp., resulting inMovella becoming a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
  • Represented Interactive Strength Inc. (FORME), a digital fitness platform that combines premium connected fitness hardware products with live virtual personal training and coaching, in its $12 million IPO.
  • Advised Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp. in its $345 million IPO.
  • Advised Inphi Corp. in its $82 million IPO with an underwriting group managed by Morgan Stanley & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities and Jefferies, its subsequent follow-on offering, and its $126 million acquisition of Cortina Systems Inc.
  • Advised CafePress Inc. in its $85 million IPO.
  • Advised Applied Micro Circuits Corporation in its $770 million acquisition by MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
  • Advised PLX Technology Inc. in its $309 million acquisition by Avago Technologies Ltd.
  • Advised Financial Engines Inc. in its $127 million IPO with an underwriting group managed by Goldman Sachs & Co., its $560 million acquisition of The Mutual Fund Store, and a $182 million secondary offering.
  • Advised Network Solutions Inc. in its $59.4 million IPO, as well as in its $778.6 million and $1.9 billion follow-on offerings.
  • Represented investment banks on a wide range of equity and debt financings, including:

-  Barclays

-  Deutsche Bank

-  Goldman Sachs

-  J.P. Morgan

-  Jefferies

-  Morgan Stanley

-  Stifel Nicolaus

-  UBS Securities

  • Worked on a number of notable issuer-side IPOs and follow-on offerings, including for:

-  1stdibs.com Inc.

-  Coursera Inc.

-  Financial Engines Inc.

-  Atheros Communications Inc.

-  WebEx Communications Inc.

-  PortalPlayer Inc.

-  SiRF Technology Holdings Inc.

-  Inphi Corporation

-  Network Solutions Inc.

-  SunPower Corporation

-  SYNNEX Corporation

-  SiTime Corporation

-  Magma Design Automation Inc.

-  SupportSoft Inc.

-  Techwell Corporation

-  CafePress Inc.

-  Critical Path Inc.

-  eGain Communications Corporation

Professional Highlights

  • Recognized by Super Lawyers, The National Law Journal and PLC Which Lawyer?
  • Served as Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley office managing partner and served as co-leader of the Corporate Securities – Technology practice.

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Education

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

    A.B., Stanford University

Admissions

  • California

Languages

  • French