Daren Orzechowski

Other noteworthy experience

Advising:

• Zendesk in connection with various transactions, including its acquisition of Klaus, a provider of a leading AI-powered service quality management platform.
• Aidentyx, a provider of smart manufacturing asset performance management software products, in connection with its formation and spinoff from BIStelligence.
• Bain Capital Ventures in connection with various venture capital investment transactions.
• Slack regarding various technology transactions: Slack, in connection with various technology transactions, involving its products and infrastructure, data privacy and policy matters, and customer contracts and terms of use, including transactions with key partners such as Amazon Web Services and IBM.
• EchoStar Corp., in connection with various transactions, including a spin-off of certain technology and infrastructure assets relating to satellites and set-top boxes, and separating such business from its DISH Network consumer pay-TV business; and an exchange of its EchoStar Technologies businesses for the Hughes Retail Group tracking stock owned by DISH Network Corp., which was effectively a carve-out M&A transaction involving the cross-licensing of valuable intellectual property and information technology assets.
• Salesforce, in connection with various transactions ranging from alliances with data provider partners to M&A transactions.
• Baring Private Equity Asia and its portfolio company, Prometric, on its acquisition of Academic Merit (DBA Finetune Learning), a leading innovator in artificial intelligence-assisted education and workforce software tools.
• Pegasus Capital in its acquisition of a significant equity interest in Six Senses Group, a luxury resort and spa management and development company, which manages resorts and spas under the brand names Soneva, Six Senses and Evason and Six Senses Sanctuary.
• Iconix Brand Group, Inc., a brand management company, in a variety of transactions including an acquisition of the UMBRO brand from Nike, Inc.; sale of its entertainment division, which included the rights to Peanuts, including content featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and other well-known characters, and Strawberry Shortcake and its related characters, to DHX Media Ltd.; sale of its SHARPER IMAGE business.; a transaction with Madonna resulting in the creation of a MATERIAL GIRL-branded line of clothing and a creation of a joint venture with a Hong Kong-based company to expand Iconix's business in Asia.
• Anthem, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies, in a number of transactions including an acquisition of myNEXUS Inc., a post-acute benefits management company focused on delivering innovative home and community-based product offerings; an acquisition of InnovaCare Health, L.P.’s Puerto Rico-based subsidiaries, including MMM Holdings, LLC, one of the fastest-growing vertically integrated healthcare organizations in the United States; an acquisition of Beacon Health Options, the largest independently held behavioral health organization in the United States, from Bain Capital Private Equity; an acquisition of Aspire Health, Inc., the nation’s largest non-hospice, community-based palliative care provider; a sale of 1-800 CONTACTS, INC., a leading contact lens retailer, to Thomas H. Lee Partners; its related sale of 1-800 CONTACTS' glasses.com business to Luxottica; and a sale of its pharmacy benefit management business to Express Scripts, Inc.