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Overview
Dana Kromm is a partner in the firm's Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions practices at Paul Hastings, based in the firm's San Francisco office. Ms. Kromm represents both strategic and financial buyers and sellers in public and private M&A, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, tender and exchange offers, joint ventures, complex carve-out acquisitions, minority investments, and corporate partnering transactions, as well as corporate governance matters and special committee representations. Her experience includes significant cross-border transactions.
In addition, Ms. Kromm represents portfolio companies of private equity clients, handling day-to-day legal activities, add-on acquisitions, and other general corporate work.
Accolades and Recognitions
The Legal 500, M&A Corporate and Commercial-Private Equity Buyouts (2021)
Chambers, Corporate/M&A: Private Equity (2021)
Law360,
Private Equity MVP(2019)Named one of California's "Top Women Lawyers," The Daily Journal (2012)
Education
University of California, Davis School of Law, King Hall, J.D., 2001
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. Psychology, 1996
Speaking Engagements
Author of an article on leadership as part of IFLR's Women in Business Law Group's Best Practice Series on inclusiveness
Recent Representations
Francisco Partners in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of FrontRange, RedPrairie, the Wire Harness Business of Viasystems Group, Ex Libris, Endeavor Information Systems, Healthland, AdvancedMD Software, API Healthcare, T-System, Quantros, Avangate, Nextech, Vendavo, various portfolio company add-ons, including PracticeOne, Clinical Coding Solutions, Practice Management Associates, Marina Medical, and Concerro, and minority stakes in various companies, and its dispositions of RedPrairie, Ex Libris, AdvancedMD Software, and API Healthcare
Vector Capital in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of Register.com, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Teletrac, RAE Systems, Allegro Software, and Saba Software, and its dispositions of the Government Solutions Business of its portfolio company SafeNet, RAE Systems, and Teletrac
Symphony Technology Group in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of Aldata, Teleca, IBS, Fusion Geo, Prism Seismic, ImpactRx, Source Health Analytics, Evidera, Archimedes, and Mddatacor, and minority stakes in various companies, and its disposition of Symphony Teleca
CITIC Capital in its acquisition of DDS Lab
Coldwater Creek in its bankruptcy-related dispositions
Ramtron International in its sale to Cypress Semiconductor
Strategic Committee of Silicon Storage in the proposed sale of Silicon Storage to an affiliate of private equity firm Prophet Equity and members of management (terminated) and in its subsequent sale to Microchip Technology
Catalyst Semiconductor in its sale to ON Semiconductor
Twitter in its acquisition of Dasient
Sybase in numerous transactions, including its sale to SAP, and its acquisitions of Extended Systems, Avaki, and Mobile 365
Intuit in its acquisitions of PayCycle and Boorah
Viacom in its disposition of Harmonix
Sandisk in its acquisition of Music Gremlin
Planned Parenthood Shasta-Pacific on a pro bono basis