Natasha Allen

Natasha Allen is a partner based in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices of Foley & Lardner LLP, where she serves as Co-Chair for Artificial Intelligence within our Innovative Technology sector, Co-Chair of the Venture Capital Committee, and is a member of the Venture Capital, M&A and Transactions Practices. Natasha is a strategic advisor, supporting her clients in complex decision making.
 
Prior to joining Foley, Natasha was a founding partner at a corporate and transactional law firm, where she counselled startups and emerging companies on debt and equity financing, venture capital financing, commercial matters, and general corporate matters including formations, corporate governance, structuring, and share issuances across a variety of industries including Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, robotics, and life sciences. Natasha’s transactional experience includes mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including domestic and cross-border buy-side and sell-side transactions in Augmented/Virtual Reality, software, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and healthcare industries.

Natasha draws on a depth of experience developed in a combination of law firms, business consulting firms, and startups in both Canada and the U.S. She was previously managing counsel at a technology enabled law firm where in addition to her management role, she acted as external general counsel for clients. Before her time there, Natasha practiced at various laws firms including at a U.S. based multinational law firm. Natasha advised public and private companies in corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings, company and investor side venture capital financings, formations, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters.

Representative Matters*

• Represented DOC.AI INCORPORATED, a digital health transformation company, in its sale to Sharecare and pending combination with Falcon Capital Acquisition Corp.
• Represented Semarchy, the Intelligent Data HubTM company and a disruptive provider of master data management software, in a significant investment from funds managed by Providence Strategic Growth (“PSG”), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners
• Represented 174 Power Global, the power project development arm of Hanwha Energy Corp., in a joint venture with Total SE to produce 1.6 GW of industrial renewable power and battery storage projects in North America
• Lead attorney representing a cybersecurity company in the sale of its assets to a global leader in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology
• Sole attorney representing a technology company building simulation software for the robotics industry, in the sale of its shares to a supplier of precision instrumentation and controls listed on the LSE
• Represented an AI company that designed a platform to diagnose eye disease in its sale of its assets to an international vision care health insurance company
• Represented a company developing a cloud-based mobile video platform in its merger with a cloud-based video marketing automation solutions company and an immediate follow-on Series A financing
• Represented Boxwood Merger, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in its ~$700 million acquisition of the units of Atlas Intermediate Holdings (Atlas), a leading provider of professional testing, inspection, engineering and consulting services
• Represented a multi-national SaaS software provider in its Series F Preferred Stock Financing led by Accel U.S. and Sequoia India
• Sole attorney that represented an international augmented reality technology company in the sale of its shares to a large US public beauty retailer

*Certain of these matters were handled prior to joining Foley.

Community Involvement

Natasha is an active leader inside and outside the office and is involved in several cultural and professional development initiatives and organizations. In the larger professional community, she is a board member of Leading Women in Technology, a non-profit that empowers women to develop their knowledge, leadership skills and networks for greater professional and personal impact. Natasha is also a lifetime member of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Northern California.

Presentations

• Panelist, “M&A Term Sheet 101,” L2 Counsel webinar (July 14, 2020)
• Panelist, “IP in M&A Transactions,” L2 Counsel webinar (June 23, 2020)

Education

• University of Waterloo (MTax, 2005)
• Queen’s University Faculty of Law (J.D., 2003)
• York University (B.A., with honors, 2000)

Admissions

• California