Lauren S. Kramer

Lauren S. Kramer

Associate, Mergers and Acquisitions

Bio

Lauren Kramer advises public and private companies, private equity firms, family offices and sovereign wealth funds in U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, carve-outs, strategic investments and corporate governance matters.

Her select representations include:

  • Activision Blizzard Inc. in its pending $75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation;
  • Genesys, a portfolio company of the Permira Funds and Hellman & Friedman, in a $580 million round of funding at a valuation of $21 billion;
  • Spotify Technology S.A. in its:
    • acquisition of Chartable Holding Inc.; and
    • acquisition of Megaphone LLC from Graham Holdings;
  • Honeywell in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Sparta Systems from New Mountain Capital;
  • OceanSound Partners and its portfolio company Netrix in the acquisition of the managed IT services business unit of Contegix, LLC;
  • American Express Global Business Travel in its acquisition of Ovation Travel Group;
  • Vital Proteins in its acquisition by Nestlé Health Science;
  • Mubadala Investment Company in its investment as part of a consortium of $2.25 billion in Waymo;
  • NXP Semiconductors N.V. in its:
    • $1.8 billion acquisition of Marvell Technology Group Ltd.’s wireless connectivity portfolio; and
    • proposed but terminated $47 billion acquisition by Qualcomm Incorporated;
  • Permira Funds in several transactions, including:
    • the sale of its portfolio company LSNE to PCI Pharma Services;
    • its acquisition of a majority stake in Axiom;
    • its acquisition of a majority stake in Reformation;
    • its acquisition of a majority stake in Cielo, Inc. from Accel-KKR;
    • its acquisition of Evonik Jayhawk Fine Chemicals Corporation from Evonik Industries AG; and
    • the $2.3 billion sale of its portfolio company Atrium Innovations to Nestlé S.A.;
  • Goldman Sachs & Co. as financial advisor in several transactions, including to:
    • Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. in its sale to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for approximately $4.1 billion;
    • Covetrus, Inc. in its sale to funds affiliated with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and TPG Capital for approximately $4 billion;
    • American Renal Associates Holdings, Inc. in its sale to Innovative Renal Care, LLC, an affiliate of Nautic Partners, LLC, for approximately $853 million; and
    • TRATON SE in its acquisition of Navistar International Corporation for approximately $3.7 billion

Credentials

Education

  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2016 (Editorial Board, Virginia Law Review)
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2013 (magna cum laude)

Admissions

  • New York

Lauren S. Kramer

Associate, Mergers and Acquisitions
lauren.kramer@skadden.com