
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