Awards and Rankings
Three Silicon Valley M&A partners receive 2020 “Top 100” Daily Journal recognition
17 September 2020
PartnerSilicon Valley
Email jane.ross@hoganlovells.com
Phone +1 650 463 4054
Fax +1 650 463 4199
Practice groupCorporate & Finance
"A wonderful M&A lawyer... a pragmatic straight-shooter, cost effective and driven to achieve great results for her clients."
Legal 500
Jane Ross represents buyers and sellers of public and private companies across many industries, with a focus on the information technology and life sciences sectors.
Jane has handled multibillion-dollar transactions for many of Silicon Valley's most recognizable industry-leading technology companies and has also conducted significant transactional work for major global companies in the pharmaceutical and technology industries, including handling a variety of cross-border M&A and joint venture transactions.
Jane was named "Best in Mergers and Acquisitions" by Euromoney's Women in Business Law Awards in 2015, and The Legal 500 recognizes her as a standout in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, describing her as "a wonderful M&A lawyer" who is "a pragmatic straight-shooter, cost effective, and driven to achieve great results for her clients."
Among her many accolades, Expert Guides recognized her as an "expert" in M&A by "Women in Business Law" in 2018. California Lawyer magazine also recognized her as one of its 2012 "California Attorneys of the Year," and IFLR1000 has also named her as a "Highly regarded" lawyer for M&A and technology and telecommunications in the U.S. for 2020. Jane was also included in the Daily Journal's prestigious list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2020.
Corporate/M&A (Northern California)
Chambers USA
Top 100 Lawyers in California
Daily Journal
M&A
Who's Who Legal
M&A, Highly Regarded
IFLR1000
Technology and Telecommunications, Highly Regarded
IFLR1000
Leading Lawyer in M&A (United States)
IFLR1000
Mergers and Acquisitions
Best Lawyers in America
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Large Deals ($1bn+)
Legal 500 US
Healthcare: Life Sciences
Legal 500 US
Top Women Lawyers
Daily Journal
Top Women Leaders in Tech Law
The Recorder
Best in M&A
International Financial Law Review
Best in Mergers and Acquisitions
Euromoney's Women in Business Law Awards
Expert in M&A
Expert Guides' Women in Business Law
Education
LL.B., McGill University, with distinction, 1997
B.C.L., McGill University, with distinction, 1997
B.Com., McGill University, 1993
Bar admissions and qualifications
California
Quebec
Adobe on multiple transactions, including its US$4.75bn acquisition of Marketo and its US$1.68bn acquisition of Magento Commerce
eBay on dozens of transactions, including its US$2.4bn acquisition and subsequent sale of GSI Commerce and its acquisition of Giosis Pte Ltd's Japanese ecommerce business, including the Qoo10 platform
Facebook on several transactions, including its US$16bn acquisition of WhatsApp and its US$5.7bn investment in Jio Platforms Limited in India
Intel Corporation on multiple transactions, including its US$15.4bn acquisition of Altera* and its US$900m acquisition of Moovit
PayPal on several acquisitions, including its acquisitions of Fraud Sciences, Where, and Stackmob*
Salesforce on many transactions, including its acquisitions of Datorama and Bonobo AI
Walmart on several acquisitions, including its US$16bn acquisition of a majority stake in Flipkart
Novartis on its acquisition of Amblyotech
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
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