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Kyle Zhu

Senior Associate

New York

Kyle Zhu is a senior associate in Orrick’s New York office and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity group. Kyle has wide-ranging M&A and private equity deal experience across sectors, including the technology, energy & infrastructure and life sciences industries.

Kyle represents public and private companies and private equity funds in various domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions on both the buy-side and sell-side. Kyle is also experienced in advising clients on representation and warranty insurance and venture financings. As part of Orrick’s fintech and artificial intelligence working group, Kyle analyzes and creates thought leadership on novel legal issues related to crypto, web 3.0 and artificial intelligence.

Kyle is passionate about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. He serves as a leader on Orrick’s New York Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee and Orrick’s Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Inclusion Network. He is also a Vice Chair of the Corporate Law Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York.

  • When not lawyering, Kyle enjoys playing golf and video games or cheering on his favorite League of Legends e-sports or Pittsburgh sports teams.

  • Technology and AI

    • Deel on its acquisitions of Legalpad, Capbase, Payspace, and Hofy
    • Lever on its sale to Employ
    • Heap on its sale to Contentsquare
    • Gabi on its sale to ConsumerInfo.com
    • Galaxy Digital on its $44 million acquisition of GK8
    • Paperspace on its $111 million sale to DigitalOcean
    • BrightBytes on its sale to Google
    • Algolia on its acquisition of Search.io
    • Dave on its $4 billion business combination with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings III, Inc.
    • Chainalysis on its acquisition of Transpose Data
    • Salt Labs on its sale to Chime
    • Watershed on its acquisition of VitalMetrics
    • Jasper on its acquisition of Clipdrop from Stability AI
    • Typface on its acquisitions of Treat Technologies and Narrato
    • Ubiquity6 on its sale to Discord

    Energy & Infrastructure

    • Enlight Renewable Energy on its $433 million acquisition of Clenera
    • Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of Liberty Renewables

    Private Equity

    • Redwood Software (Turn/River portfolio company) on its sale to Vista Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus
    • Invicti Security Corp (Turn/River portfolio company) on its $625 million sale to Summit Partners

    Life Sciences

    • Twist Bioscience on its acquisition of iGenomX
    • Novitium Pharma on its sale to ANI Pharmaceuticals
    • Ipsen on the sale of priority review voucher to a large global pharmaceutical company

    Consumer and Retail

    • E&J Gallo on its acquisitions of Rombauer Vineyards and Agave Loco and Midwest Custom Bottling
    • Good Eggs on its sale to GrubMarket
    • Clutter on its merger-of-equals with MakeSpace

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