Michelle E. Cho

Michelle Cho represents public and private companies in U.S. and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and other complex strategic matters. She also advises clients with respect to corporate governance and other general corporate issues.

Ms. Cho’s select representative matters include:

• Boston Dynamics in its $1.1 billion sale to Hyundai Motor Group
• Western Digital Corporation in its ongoing evaluation of strategic alternatives and its $900 million convertible preferred investment from Apollo and Elliott
• F5 Networks, Inc. in its:
  • $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security, Inc.
  • $440 million acquisition of Volterra Inc.
• Theravance Biopharma, Inc. in the $1.5 billion sale of its TRELEGY ELLIPTA royalty interests to Royalty Pharma plc
• ServiceNow, Inc. in its acquisition of LightStep, Inc.
• FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with Starry, Inc. at an enterprise value of $1.76 billion
• ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with Tempo Automation Inc. at an enterprise value of $919 million
• Crescent Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with LiveVox, Inc. at an enterprise value of $840 million
• View, Inc. in its $1.6 billion merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II
• Advantest America, Inc. in its $300 million acquisition of Essai Corporation
• Xperi Corporation in its $3 billion merger with TiVo Corporation

Ms. Cho is a member of the Palo Alto office’s Diversity Committee and Skadden’s global Asian and Pacific Islander affinity network.