Sean C. Coburn

Sean Coburn is a corporate attorney who advises public and private companies and private equity firms on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, corporate governance, joint ventures, spin-offs and securities offerings. He counsels companies in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on entertainment and technology.

Notable representations include:

• Catalent in its pending $16.5 billion sale to Novo Holdings
• IFF in the pending $810 million sale of its cosmetic ingredients business unit to Clariant
• Rosecliff Acquisition I in its $170 million merger with Spectral MD
• Mars in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Heska Corporation
• Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter
• Chardan Capital Markets in connection with its roles as sponsor, financial advisor and capital markets advisor in multiple recent de-SPAC transactions
• Chardan NexTech 2 in its $500 million merger with energy storage company Dragonfly Energy Corp.
• Lecoq Cuisine in its acquisition by Groupe Le Duff
• Reinvent Technology Partners Y in its $11 billion merger with self-driving company Aurora
• Reinvent Technology Partners in its $6.6 billion merger with all-electric aircraft company Joby Aviation
• Social Capital Hedosophia V in its $6.6 billion merger with online personal finance company Social Finance, Inc.
• Social Capital Hedosophia II in its $5 billion merger with online home seller Opendoor Labs Inc.
• Bank of America as lender in a 3.6 billion Indian rupee local-currency revolving credit facility provided to Fourth Partner Energy, one of India’s largest distributed solar companies
• Social Capital Hedosophia in its $1.5 billion merger with spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, LLC
• Spotify in its acquisitions of Gimlet Media and Anchor FM
• Red Hat in its $34 billion acquisition by IBM