Becky Troutman
Partner
Co-Chair, Technology, Media and Telecom Industry Group & Co-Chair, IP/Privacy
Recognized by World Trademark Review in its survey of the world’s leading trademark professionals, WTR 1000, Becky has more than 30 years of experience advising clients on intellectual property and technology transactions. Becky’s strong background in technology includes a technical degree in biology.
Key Matters
Representative Transactions:
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Represented Sycamore Partners in its acquisitions of Jones Group Inc., Hot Topic, Inc. and The Talbots, Inc.
- Represented Bay Bread Group in the sale of its La Boulange Café & Bakery to Starbucks Corporation.
- Represented online game company Slingo, Inc. in its sale to RealNetworks, Inc.
- Represented Underwriters Laboratories in its acquisitions of Innovadex, Eduneering, and The Wercs Ltd.
- Represented Davis+Henderson corporation in its acquisitions of Avista Solutions and Harland Financial Solutions and its investment in and subsequent acquisition of Compushare Inc.
- Represented KAR Auction Services, Inc. in its acquisition of Openlane, Inc., an online automotive auction service.
- Represented Motorola Solutions, Inc. in the divestiture of its wireless network infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks.
- Represented Kongregate Inc., a free-to-play social game aggregation site and community of gamers, in its sale to GameStop Corp.
- Represented Ruleburst Holdings Limited, the parent company of Haley Limited, a leading provider of policy modeling and automation software for legislative and regulated industries in its sale to Oracle Corporation.
- Represented Bharosa Inc., a leading provider of fraud prevention and strong authentication security solutions, in its sale to Oracle Corporation.
- Represented Sony Electronics Inc. in its acquisition of Convergent Media systems, a leading provider of video integration solutions to the enterprise market.
- Represented Tops Markets, LLC in connection with its U.S. Bankruptcy Court-approved acquisition of a majority of the assets of The Penn Traffic Company.
- Represented AWS Truepower, LLC, an affiliate of UL Inc., in its acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based HOMER Energy, the world leader in modeling and optimization software for microgrids.
Financings
- Represented MaxPoint Interactive, Inc., an online advertising targeting technology service, in its Series B financing.
- Represented Kongregate Inc., a Web game startup and developer forum, in multiple equity financings and contract matters.
- Represented William Blair & Company, L.L.C. as underwriter’s counsel in connection with the public offering of common stock of Sonic Solutions, a leader in the delivery and management of premium digital video content.
- Representation of Sophoi, Inc., a provider of enterprise intellectual property management software, in connection with an investment by Oracle Corporation.
Other Transactions
- Represented CME Group in its establishment of the Green Exchange, a new futures exchange formed through a joint venture with a consortium of brokers and Wall Street investment banks.
- Represented an investment bank in connection with the contribution of proprietary software and open source components to a joint venture.
- Represented a produce cooperative in connection with joint ventures in Europe and Australia.