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MoFo Advises DataLane on $22.5 Million Series A

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MoFo advised DataLane, a solution provider of AI-powered market intelligence for revenue teams selling into the local economy, on its $22.5 million Series A funding round led by Amplify Partners along with 20VC, Basis Set and Mischief.﻿The MoFo team advising DataLane was led by emerging companies + venture capital partner Michael Glaser and associates Case Collins and Sarah Denhard, with data, cyber + privacy partner Boris Segalis, and technology transactions partners William Wilson and Anthony Ramirez.

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Michael Glaser is a partner in the San Francisco office of Morrison Foerster and is co-chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group.Described as “one of the finest venture capital lawyers I have ever worked with” by a client in Chambers USA, Michael offers more than two decades of experience advising innovative startup and investor clients. Michael represents startups from formation through exit in multiple industries, including consumer e-commerce, interactive entertainment, digital media, consumer products, sharing economy, cloud services, on-prem software, fintech, and digital health sectors.Michael has represented startups in hundreds of venture capital transactions, with pre-money valuations ranging from millions to billions of dollars. Michael’s clients have been funded by top tier venture capital firms, such as Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures. Michael also represents his startup clients in M&A deals, and has advised companies in numerous high-value exit transactions with leading serial acquirers.Michael is an industry thought-leader and has served on the Model Document Working Group for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Corporate Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, and the ABA Working Group on Legal Opinions. Michael also has significant business management experience. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, he co-chaired another international law firm’s largest practice group, with ten subgroups, over 300 lawyers, and a P&L in the hundreds of millions.<h4>Selected Exit Transactions</h4><ul><li>Represented AddLive in its sale to Snap (NYSE: SNAP).</li><li>Represented Applifier in its sale to Unity Technologies (NYSE: U).</li><li>Represented Candywriter in its sale to Stillfront Group.</li><li>Represented Cloudup in its sale to Automattic.</li><li>Represented CourseRank in a merger with Chegg (NYSE: CHGG).</li><li>Represented Freeverse Inc. in its sale to ngmco.</li><li>Represented GlobalMotion Media Inc. (publisher of EveryTrail.com) in its sale to Trip Advisor (Nasdaq: TRIP).</li><li>Represented Hackpad in its sale to Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX).</li><li>Represented Jambool in a merger transaction with Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG).</li><li>Represented Liquid Audio (Nasdaq:LQID) in its sale of technology assets to Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT).</li><li>Represented PullString in its sale to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL).</li><li>Represented Rupture.com in an acquisition by Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS).</li><li>Represented Snapcentric in its sale to Verisign (Nasdaq:VRSN).</li><li>Represented TenMarks in its sale to Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN).</li><li>Represented Wondery in its sale to Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN).</li></ul>

Michael Glaser

Co-Chair of Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Practice

Case Collins is an associate in the San Francisco office of Morrison Foerster, and a member of the firm’s Transactions Department.Case has experience counselling on a wide range of transactional and corporate matters. His practice primarily focuses on early-stage and emerging companies and has led and and negotiated company and investor side financing transactions, from pre-seed simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs) and convertible notes for newly formed companies to later stage financing rounds and growth equity for startups. He has experience advising on corporate governance matters and acting as outside general counsel for emerging companies as they develop from an early stage startup to a mature company.Case received his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He also holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Case Collins

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Sarah Denhard is an associate in the New York office and is a member of the firm’s Emerging Companies + Venture Capital practice group.Sarah represents startup companies from formation to exit. During law school, Sarah was an online editor for the Emory Law Journal. She also participated in Emory Law’s Technology and Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program, focusing on the technology and business track. Additionally, she served as Vice President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society and interned with the in-house legal department at Universal Creative.

Sarah Denhard

Boris Segalis is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Data, Cyber + Privacy Group. For over a dozen years, he has counseled clients on privacy and cybersecurity issues in the context of strategic product advice, corporate transactions, and regulatory investigations.Boris regularly advises clients on the development and implementation of data-driven products and services, on global privacy and cybersecurity compliance, and on handling cyber incidents affecting companies and users globally. Boris also regularly defends companies in U.S. federal, state, and global privacy and cybersecurity investigations, including representing clients in front of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the New York and California attorneys general, and foreign regulators.Boris’s practice focuses on advising clients on the requirements of a variety of U.S. privacy and cybersecurity laws, including the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA) and other U.S. state privacy laws; state cybersecurity requirements such as the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)’s Cybersecurity Regulation; the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA); the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); CAN-SPAM; NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CFS); the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA); and the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Boris regularly advises financial institutions and Fintech companies on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Boris also has experience advising companies on privacy concerns stemming from the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and other biometric data requirements. Boris has a strong command of global privacy and cybersecurity laws and advises companies on regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the EU’s ePrivacy Directive.Boris counsels clients ranging from emerging to late-stage to public companies across industries, including technology, data brokerage, AI, financial services and Fintech, crypto, life sciences, consumer services, e-commerce, AdTech, media, and others. For seven consecutive years, Boris has been individually recognized by Chambers USA in the Privacy & Data Security category and is recognized by Chambers Global for Privacy & Data Security – USA. He has also been recognized by The Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in cyber law (including data privacy and data protection). Crain’s New York Business has previously included him in its 40 Under 40 list, and New York Metro has recognized Boris as both a Super Lawyer and a Rising Star.Boris is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), has previously served as co-chair of NYC IAPP KnowledgeNet, and served on the IAPP’s Research Board. Boris currently serves as one of the leaders of the UJA Privacy and Cybersecurity Group. Boris also is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he co-teaches a class on the law of data as an asset.

Boris Segalis

Partner

William Wilson is a partner in the Technology Transactions Group in the New York office of Morrison Foerster.William provides guidance to startups, major corporations, and venture capital and private equity investors. His practice spans business and technology transactions, including counseling, as well as structuring and negotiating deals across various industries, with a specialized emphasis on the Fintech, software, and technology sectors.William provides legal representation across the entirety of a company’s lifecycle, from general corporate and IP counseling, to early- and late-stage financings, to exit event. As an active participant in the venture ecosystem, William is involved with various startup accelerators and incubators, including MIT Delta V, NYU Endless Frontier Labs, and Spark Cleantech Accelerator.William’s practice covers all aspects of technology and intellectual property counseling, including strategic licensing, artificial intelligence, technology transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and intellectual property strategy and protection. He also has substantial experience in intellectual property and commercial matters related to strategic mergers, acquisitions, and corporate divestitures.William has served as a guest lecturer at numerous institutions, such as Columbia University, Brown University, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, and University of Tennessee. His lectures span topics from technology transactions and venture capital to artificial intelligence and startup matters.William is recognized as a Recommended Lawyer for Patent Licensing by The Legal 500 United States. The publication highlighted his profound understanding of both legal and technical matters, with clients noting that he has “deep knowledge of the issues, both legal and technical and is able to clearly advise and support both the legal and business teams,” and commending his “relaxed and collaborative negotiation style that promotes resolution of issues, which is a very helpful skill when dealing with a difficult counterparty.”

William Wilson

Anthony Ramirez is a partner in the Technology Transactions Group in the New York office of Morrison Foerster.Anthony advises clients on general commercial and transactional matters. He regularly advises companies on the IP aspects of their M&A transactions. His clients include technology, digital media and content for television and music, financial services, and communications companies with diverse intellectual property assets and issues.His practice focuses on the legal aspects of developing, licensing, and commercializing technology and intellectual property, as well as negotiating general commercial contracts, including outsourcing transactions, as well as content and data licenses. He regularly assists clients with legal issues relating to licensing and commercialization of digital media and content, digital content that is distributed over the Internet or streamed, mobile applications and social media, as well as the licensing of recorded music for distribution via digital platforms. Anthony is also experienced with issues relating to open-source software, software development, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud-based technology, and protection of proprietary information.Anthony has extensive experience working on matters involving disruptive technologies, such as blockchain. He has helped fintech clients with general intellectual property issues in connection with terms of service for online financial products and services.Anthony is an integral part of the outside pro bono legal team for nonprofit organizations based in New York, including advising clients on legal issues regarding entertainment, social media, privacy rights, and the negotiation of outsourcing and service agreements. Anthony received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2009. He received his B.S. from Cornell University in 2004.

Anthony M. Ramirez

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