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Morrison Foerster is representing OnScale, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-native, web-based computer aided engineering tools, in its sale to Ansys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global leader in engineering simulation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 



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Morrison Foerster is representing OnScale, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-native, web-based computer aided engineering tools, in its sale to Ansys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global leader in engineering simulation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. OnScale was formed in 2017 as a spin off from global engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti. The MoFo team advising OnScale was led by San Francisco senior counsel John Campbell and Palo Alto associate Jim Ryan, and included Palo Alto corporate associates Katherine Suzuki and Haley Georgouses and San Francisco corporate associates Kate Tyler and Mingqian Li. The wider team included executive compensation and benefits of counsel Brooke Monahan, Palo Alto employment of counsel Ossie Cousins, Boston privacy partner Julie O’Neill, San Francisco TTG associate Evangeline Phang, and Boston tax associate Kevin Brown.For further discussion of the transaction, see the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ansys.com/news-center/press-releases/4-13-22-ansys-to-expand-cloud-portfolio-with-technology-from-acquisition-of-onscale.">press release</a>.

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Jim Ryan is a partner in Morrison Foerster's Transactions Department. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate and securities matters, including venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance, and corporate governance.Jim represents entrepreneurs, startups and emerging companies as outside general counsel, venture capital and private equity investors, and financial and strategic acquirers across the technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences industries. His clients operate in a variety of sectors including machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, cybersecurity, data analytics, fintech, e-commerce, gaming, life sciences, and medical devices.Jim earned his J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he was a comments editor for the Santa Clara Law Review and was published on the topic of cloud computing regulation. He received his B.A. in Economics with a minor in Information Systems and Technology Management from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jim Ryan

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Katherine Suzuki is a corporate associate in the firm's Palo Alto office.Katherine’s practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, including venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance.Prior to joining the firm as an associate, Katherine served in the United States House of Representatives as a Legislative Fellow. She also served as an Honors Program Legal Intern with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.Katherine earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she earned a Certificate of Specialization in Business Law. While in law school, she served as Executive Editor for the Asian American Law Journal and participated in the New Business Practicum, which advises startups in the Bay Area.Katherine received her B.A., with distinction, from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Katherine M. Suzuki

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Mingqian Li is a corporate associate in the San Francisco office of Morrison Foerster.Before joining Morrison Foerster’s Transactions Department, Mingqian was a summer associate in the Palo Alto and Tokyo offices during the summer of 2020.Mingqian earned her J.D., cum laude, from Washington University School of Law, where she served as a student attorney at the Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Clinic. She holds a B.A. from Beijing Normal University.She is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese.

Mingqian Li

Brooke Monahan is of counsel in the Executive Compensation + Benefits practice.Brooke’s practice focuses on executive compensation, employee benefits, ERISA, and employment law. She has extensive experience advising public and private companies on their compensation, benefits, and employment-related issues in their day-to-day operations, public offerings, financing transactions, and other corporate matters. She frequently counsels clients on various executive compensation and employee benefits matters that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on the private equity space. She also has experience designing, drafting, and negotiating compensation related agreements including severance, change-in-control, and executive employment agreements, equity incentive plans, and award agreements.Brooke earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. While there, she was elected to the Order of the Coif and earned awards for excellence in contracts and oral advocacy. She was also a member of the Pro Bono Jurists organization, the Women’s Law Caucus, and the Washington University Law Quarterly.

Brooke Monahan

Of Counsel

Clients seek out Julie because of her practical advice on cutting-edge issues at the intersection of privacy and consumer protection laws. She provides clients with practical solutions to compliance challenges around a wide variety of both online and offline privacy issues, including tracking, interest-based advertising, geo-targeting and other mobile tracking, personalization, and cross-device tracking. Recognized in The Legal 500 US 2014, 2016, 2019, and 2020 and Chambers USA 2021 for her exceptional legal work, her clients praise her saying, “She is really good at giving practical, targeted advice and taking stock of what the risk profile of the client is, so that the advice is holistic.” (Chambers USA).Julie provides clients with creative and practical advice on meeting the requirements of state and federal privacy laws, including the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). She crafts guidelines and compliance programs for clients’ collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in diverse contexts and throughout the life cycle of their initiatives, such as for connected products (the Internet of Things) and mobile services. She also drafts privacy and cookies policies, online service terms of use, agreements involving online and offline advertising and marketing practices, and agreements concerning a variety of data uses. In addition, Julie helps clients assess and manage privacy risks, including in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.Julie creates compliance programs for clients’ use of a wide variety of channels for communicating with and marketing to consumers, including email, telephone, text message, and fax, both in the United States and around the world. She works with clients to develop their social media strategies and to clear their social media content. She also reviews advertising in both traditional and new media for compliance with applicable laws, including Section 5 of the FTC Act and various FTC rules and guides. In addition, she works with clients to structure, market, and implement their sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions in compliance with applicable laws.As a former FTC staff attorney, Julie regularly defends companies in investigations by the FTC and before data protection authorities around the world.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>A company that creates online software used by schools in an FTC investigation of alleged COPPA violations.</li><li>A consumer services company investigated by the Korean data protection authority for alleged privacy violations</li><li>A manufacturer in connection with a challenge of its environmental advertising claims by the FTC </li><li>An advertising services company in an investigation of alleged privacy-related violations of the FTC Act</li><li>An online provider of entertainment services in an FTC investigation of alleged COPPA violations</li><li>A beverage company in an FTC investigation of alleged COPPA violations</li></ul>Before attending law school, Julie was a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa.

Julie O'Neill

Kevin is a tax associate in the Boston office of Morrison Foerster.Kevin advises clients on U.S. federal income tax considerations related to domestic and cross-border transactions that include mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, reorganizations, real estate investment trusts, capital markets transactions, structured products, and renewable energy. He also advises clients on the formation and continuing operation of tax-exempt organizations as well as tax controversies and a broad range of general corporate tax planning matters.Kevin earned his law degree from Boston University School of Law. He also earned his LL.M. in taxation from Boston University School of Law and his M.A. in literature from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. He has also studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Kevin was an English teacher at various independent schools in the Northeast.