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MoFo Advises Bow River Capital on Majority Platform Investment with Cloudshare

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Morrison Foerster advised Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity Team’s (SGE) sixth majority platform investment out of SGE Fund II with CloudShare. CloudShare is the solution of choice for global software organizations; a partial listing includes Atlassian, Motorola, Ping Identity, Palo Alto Networks, and Salesforce. SGE's investment will support CloudShare's efforts to accelerate global growth, scale-up infrastructure, and rapidly deliver innovations and AI deliverables within its product suite. The MoFo team advising Bow River Capital was led by Denver corporate partner Erik Knudsen and Palo Alto corporate partner Shiri Shenhav.Read the <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bow-river-capitals-software-growth-equity-platform-completes-majority-investment-in-cloudshare-302426325.html" target="_blank">client press release</a>.

MoFo Advises Bow River Capital on Majority Platform Investment with Cloudshare

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Erik Knudsen is a corporate partner and serves as co-chair of the firm's Transactions Department. He is also a member of the Mergers + Acquisitions and Private Equity Investments + Buyouts practice groups.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.With a broad industry reach, Erik has led transactions in diverse sectors such as healthcare, industrial, software, internet, technology, business services, distribution, and manufacturing. His industry‑specific knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the private equity market and corporate counsel requirements position him as a trusted advisor for clients navigating complex business landscapes.

Erik G. Knudsen

Co-Chair of Transactions Department

Shiri Shenhav is a partner in the Transactions Department and the Mergers + Acquisitions Group based in Palo Alto. Shiri maintains a corporate transactional practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions and equity investments in the technology industry for public and private companies.Shiri regularly assists strategic buyers and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including deal structuring and mechanics, stock and asset purchases, mergers, divestitures, and spin-offs. Shiri also regularly represents companies with respect to their equity investments, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions, as well as general corporate counseling.As an accomplished attorney certified in California and in Israel, Shiri has extensive experience representing multinational corporations and funds in cross-border transactions involving Israeli aspects. Shiri also co-leads the firm’s AI M&A Initiative.Shiri is fluent in Hebrew.<h4 dir="ltr">Representative Experience</h4><ul dir="ltr"><li>SoftBank in connection with its acquisition of Berkshire Grey.</li><li>Vontier Corporation in its sale of Global Traffic Technologies to Miovision.</li><li>Walmart in its acquisitions of Art.com, Aspectiva, BareWeb, CareZone, Eloquii, MeMD, and Zeekit.</li><li>Zivelo in its acquisition by VeriFone.</li><li>Unity Technologies in its acquisition of RestAR.</li><li>Alpine Investors and its managed IT services and software platform Evergreen Services Group in connection with the acquisitions of Alliance Solutions Group, Global Wave Group, and Telco Experts.</li><li>Alpine Investors in its acquisition of Ethisphere. </li><li>Astroscale U.S., the U.S. unit of Astroscale Holdings, in its acquisition of certain the intellectual property and other assets and proposed hiring of certain members of the staff of Effective Space Solutions R&D. </li><li>Gryphon Investors and RegEd in the acquisition of ComplianceMAX and FIRE Continuing Education businesses from National Regulatory Services.</li><li>Mirantis in its acquisition of the Docker Enterprise platform business from Docker.</li><li>Rubicon Technology Partners in its strategic majority investment in the merger of EverTrue and ThankView.</li><li>Peer5 in its sale to Microsoft Corporation.</li><li dir="ltr">Protean Electric in its acquisition by National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB.</li></ul>

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