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Zachary E. Zemlin

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Zachary E. Zemlin has more than a decade of practice representing privately held and publicly traded companies, investment banks, and private equity and venture capital firms. His practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies, with an emphasis on biotechnology, medical device, software, and fintech. Zach regularly advises these emerging growth companies and other innovative high-growth companies at every stage of their business lifecycle, spanning mergers and acquisitions (M&A); angel, venture capital, and growth equity financings; initial public offerings (IPOs); securities offerings and compliance; corporate partnering; joint ventures; formation advice; and other strategic and outside general counsel matters.

Zach nurtures entrepreneurs and startup clients by reviewing their business plans, helping identify appropriate financing sources, and connecting them to various emerging company and venture capital communities.

He also provides legal and strategic advice on choice of entity and formation issues, equity and incentive structures, equity financing, venture capital, growth equity and debt financing structures, and the execution of growth strategies, including M&A.

  • The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (Canada) in its up to $55 million acquisition of Finale Inventory
  • Luke’s Lobster in a minority growth equity investment led by Relentless Consumer Partners and Whole Foods
  • The Descartes Systems Group Inc. in its $115 million acquisition of 3GTMS
  • CodaMetrix in its $40 million Series B financing
  • bloXroute Labs in its acquisition of Leonard Cyber Corporation, the developer of Mevlink, a market leading mempool provider
  • 23andMe in its merger with VG Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Virgin Group
  • A subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc. in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Geo-Synthetics LLC
  • CloudBees in its $245 million Series F equity and related debt financing
  • Lola.com in the sale of its workforce and software to Capital One Financial Corp.
  • Turbonomic in its acquisition by IBM
  • SilverCloud in its acquisition by TimeTrad
  • The Descartes Systems Group Inc. in its acquisition of Sellercloud, OCR Services, GroundCloud, GreenMile, Foxtrot, and XPS Technologies
  • Vets First Choice in its merger with the animal health division of Henry Schein to form Covetrus
  • Fox Auto in its sale of the largest US privately-held vehicle rental business to French public company Europcar
  • MDI Group in its sale to Motion Recruitment Partners
  • AcadiaSoft in its sale of a minority interest to London Stock Exchange
  • CloudBees in its acquisition of Rollout.io
  • CloudBees in connection with its acquisition of Electric Cloud
  • Lola.com in its $37 million Series C financing
  • Advance Publications in its acquisition of 1010data
  • Citrix Systems, Inc. in its acquisition of Cedexis
  • CloudBees in connection with its $62 million growth funding transactions and its acquisition of Codeship
  • Collinson Group in its acquisition of assets from Linkable Networks
  • eBay in the sale of its eBay India Business to Flipkart and its $500 million investment in Flipkart
  • Navient Solutions LLC in its asset sale, licensing, and services transaction with First Data Resources LLC
  • Rhythm Pharmaceuticals in its $137 million initial public offering and $174 million follow on public offering
  • Private equity firm The Wicks Group of Companies in its leveraged acquisition of Invo HealthCare
  • Cornell Law School, 2014, J.D.
  • Cornell University, 2011, B.A.
  • Massachusetts
Rising Star, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2023)