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Erik G. Knudsen is a corporate partner and a member of the Private Equity Buyouts & Investment Group.Erik focuses his practice on complex business transactions, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers, acquisitions, investments and joint ventures, reorganizations, growth equity and venture capital investments, and divestitures. He has led transactions in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, internet, technology, real estate, distribution and manufacturing.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul dir="ltr"><li>AccentCare’s management team in the sale of AccentCare from Oak Hill Capital to Advent International</li><li>Alpine Investors in its acquisition of Wilson Language Learning</li><li>Avalign Technologies and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in leveraged buy-outs of Advantis Medical, Nemcomed and NGInstruments</li><li>Bain Capital in the sale of FCI Burndy to Hubbell</li><li>Bioniche Pharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in various product acquisitions and development projects</li><li>BlackBerry in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Cylance</li><li>Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity Fund in multiple transactions, including its majority investment in Product Plan</li><li>California Cryobank in its acquisition of Donor Egg Bank and its sale to GI Partners</li><li>Ciber in multiple transactions, including sale of Infor practice to Infor and 363 sale of U.S. and Indian businesses to HTC Global</li><li>Consortium of investors (including CVCI and ABN AMRO) in sale of Mobiltel to Telekom Austria</li><li>Copain Wines in the sale to Jackson Family Wines</li><li>CorePharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in product acquisitions from GlaxoSmithKline</li><li>DigiCert’s management team in the sale of Digicert to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates</li><li>Divvy in its 2.5 billion sale to Bill.com</li><li>Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc., its operating subsidiaries and affiliates in multiple transactions, including the acquisitions of Horizon Eye Specialists, Emergency Physicians Medical Group, Northwest Tucson Emergency Physicians, Questcare Medical Services, Emergency Medical Associates of New Jersey, Scottsdale Emergency Associates, Phoenix Physicians, Life Line Ambulance Service and Guardian Healthcare Group</li><li>Excellere Partners in multiple transactions, including its investment in Concord Technologies</li><li>Flying J in various asset sales in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization</li><li>Francisco Partners in the leveraged buy-out of Ichor Systems</li><li>GKN in the acquisition of Teleflex Aerospace Manufacturing Group</li><li>GLP Pte. Ltd. in multiple transactions, including the acquisition of a $4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust</li><li>GREE International, the Western arm of GREE, in the acquisition of DragonSoul, the critically-acclaimed mobile role playing game (RPG) developed by PerBlue, and in sale of War of Nations to RockYou</li><li>Greenlane Holdings in its acquisitions of DaVinci and Eyce, and its merger with KushCo</li><li>GTCR and Devicor Medical Products in the leveraged buy-out of Breast Care Business of Ethicon Endo-Surgery</li><li>Health Evolution Partners in the leveraged buy-out of Freedom Innovations</li><li>Huck Capital in its partnership with Schneider Electric</li><li>IDIQ in its sale of 51% of IDIQ to affiliates of Corsair Capital</li><li>Industrial Growth Partners in the sale of O'Brien Corp to Ametek</li><li>Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital in the leveraged buy-out of California Cryobank</li><li>NerdWallet in its acquisition of Fundera</li><li>Odyssey Investment Partners and management in the sale of Norcross Safety Products to Honeywell</li><li>Olympus Partners in multiple transactions, including the equity and subordinated debt investment in Atlas Industrial Services and leveraged buy-out of Norwesco</li><li>onsemi (Nasdaq: ONNN) in multiple transactions, including in the acquisition of the East Fishkill Facility from Global Foundries, the acquisitions of Aptina Imaging and GT Advanced Technologies, the divestiture of the Ignition IGBT Business, and the sale of the Transient Voltage Suppressor and Thyristor Business to Littelfuse, Inc.</li><li>OWP/P in the merger with Cannon Design</li><li>Rothschild & Co. in its agreement to sell two asset management units to Wintrust Financial Corporation’s subsidiary Great Lakes Advisors, LLC</li><li>RoundTable Healthcare Partners in multiple transactions, including the leveraged buy-out of Aqua Pharmaceuticals, the sale of Bioniche Pharma to Mylan, and the sale of MedAssist to Firstsource</li><li>Rubicon Technology Partners in multiple transactions, including its strategic majority investments in EverTrue and ThankView and merger thereof, its strategic majority investments in Enquire, Glennis Solutions and Sherpa CRM and merger thereof</li><li>Sensata Technologies in the acquisition of Honeywell's "Automotive on Board" sensors business</li><li>Silver Lake Sumeru in multiple transactions, including the equity investment in Opera Solutions and sale of i2 Holdings Limited to IBM</li><li dir="ltr">SoftBank in multiple transactions, including the initial $1.26 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in Miami-based Brightstar Corp., the world’s largest specialized wireless distributor, and a subsequent second-step transaction to acquire the remaining outstanding interests, as well as the establishment of GreenBox Systems LLC, a new joint venture with Symbotic Inc. (Nasdaq: SYM), a leader in AI-powered automation technology for the supply chain.</li><li>Tomkins Ltd. in multiple transactions, including the sale of Dexter Axle to Sterling Partners and in sale of Aquatic US Holdings to Sterling Partners</li><li>Unity Technologies in its acquisition of Obvioos</li><li>Vector Capital in the leveraged buy-out of Motorola Solutions' Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Wireless Broadband Networks businesses</li><li>Versa Capital in the acquisition of assets of InPhonic</li><li>Westfire in the sale to Tyco SimplexGrinnell</li><li>Windjammer Capital in the leveraged buy-out of JWC Environmental</li><li>York Capital and JMA Ventures in the buy-out of the Bay Club Co</li></ul>

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Bita Rahebi is the co-chair of the firm’s global IP Litigation Group and the cross-disciplinary Intellectual Property Group. The world’s largest and most innovative technology companies turn to Bita for her trial skills and her strategic direction leading complex, high-stakes litigation matters. She litigates before state and federal trial courts, the Federal Circuit, and the International Trade Commission on a wide range of matters involving semiconductors, software, consumer electronics, and medical devices.As a trial lawyer, Bita is known for zealously representing her clients’ interests. She brings an ability to explain complicated issues to juries and judges, a skill honed through years of experience working with cutting-edge technologies. She has obtained a complete defense victory as lead trial lawyer, invalidated numerous patents, and also obtained winning results for plaintiffs.Bita’s successes have built her reputation as a recognized leader for intellectual property litigation. Chambers USA noted that Bita “offers substantial expertise handling patent disputes for technology-sector clients,” and clients have called her a “razor-sharp” lawyer who “excels at trial and litigation strategy” and is “client focused.” Bita’s accolades include:<ul><li>Named a Top Intellectual Property Lawyer by Daily Journal for multiple years</li><li>Selected as the 2022 Patent Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney Legal Media in its annual Americas Women in Business Law Awards</li><li>Recognized for Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation, California in the 2022 and 2023 Chambers USA guides</li><li>Recommended in the 2022 and 2023 Legal 500 US rankings for Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation and in 2023 for Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious) </li><li>Named one of the Top Women Lawyers in Southern California by Los Angeles Magazine</li></ul>Bita’s litigation practice includes patent, trade secrets, and copyright litigation. In addition to her litigation practice, Bita advises clients on strategic transactional issues and negotiates on behalf of clients in patent licensing discussions. Bita has also successfully tried criminal jury matters at the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, securing a guilty verdict for every trial.Bita is the past president of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association and she co-founded the organization’s Women in IP committee. She also served as a Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative. Bita is a board member for ALM’s Intellectual Property Strategist.Earning her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, she served as president and editor-in-chief of the Daily Californian. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was an editor of the UCLA Law Review.

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