Tony Chan

Tony’s practice focuses on advising companies and investors in the life sciences and tech sectors on strategic domestic and cross-border corporate transactions.

• Engagements

  Technology

  • Accel in the $200 million Series E financing of Axonius, a provider of cybersecurity asset management solutions
  • Smash Ventures in a $690 million investment in Coda Payments, the world's leading independent platform for digital content monetization based in Singapore
  • Smash Ventures in the $175 million Series C financing of Wagestream, the provider of a financial well-being app for frontline workers*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in the $63 million Series C financing of Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in the $36 million Series CB+ financing of Fenbeitong, a Chinese business expense management startup*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in the 100 million financing of Good Eggs, a grocery delivery service that specializes in locally sourced products*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in the $175 million Series G financing of Hopper, the world's fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in a $125 million financing of Betterfly, a Chilean insurance-tech startup*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in a $60 million Series A financing of Kiranakart Technologies Pvt Ltd, which runs Zepto, an India-based 10-minute grocery delivery app*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in the $30 million Series B financing of Headout, an online experience marketplace for travelers*
  • Smash Ventures in its investment in DuckDuckGo, a privacy company that provides mobile browser and desktop extensions that allow private searches and seamless trackers for someone browsing online*
  • Stripes Group in the $60 million financing of Caronsale, the berlin-based car marketplace*
  • Stripes Group in the $100 million Series D financing of Axonius, a provider of cybersecurity asset management solutions*
  • Stripes Group in the $50 million financing of Sift, a fraud prevention provider that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence*
  • Stripes Group in the $133 million Series C financing of Fireblocks, a crypto infrastructure provider*
  • Stripes Group in the $60 million Series C financing of Rapid API, a company that has built a marketplace that enables millions of developers to discover, test and connect to thousands of Application Programming Interfaces so they can build applications faster*
  • Smash Ventures in its investment in BYJU, an India edtech company*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in the $100 million Series H financing in VerSe Innovation, the parent company of Dailyhunt, an Indian content and news aggregator application*
  • ARInsights, a provider of SaaS solutions and data to the analyst relations industry, in the strategic investment from Polaris Growth Fund*
  • Stripes Group, a leading growth investor, in the $100 million Series D financing of Dataiku, a company focused on AI and machine learning platforms, supporting agility in organizations’ data efforts via collaborative, elastic, and responsible AI, all at enterprise scale*
  • Stripes Group in the $22 million Series B financing of Legion, an AI-powered workforce management solution that simultaneously drives labor efficiency and employee engagement*
  • ARInsights, a provider of SaaS solutions and data to the analyst relations industry, in the strategic investment from Polaris Growth Fund*
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in a $500 million financing of Impossible Foods, a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat products with a much smaller environmental impact*
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in a $210 million financing of FalconX, a digital assets and cryptocurrency financial services company that provides institutions trading, credit, and clearing across major cryptocurrencies*
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in a $270 million financing of Cohere, a Canada based company that developed a natural language processing software
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in its investment in X Holdings, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Twitter, Inc.
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in its $100 million financing of SpaceX, a California based company that is the developer of rockets and spacecraft designed to realize the goal of making life multi-planetary
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in its $360 million financing for Animonca Brands
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in its $260 million Series B financing of JOKR
  • Stripes in a Series B investment in Verbit, a provider of a transcription and captioning platform leveraging artificial intelligence to generate detailed speech-to-text files*
  • Stripes in a $150 million financing of Snyk, a company that helps developer organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in their code*
  • Stripes in a $32 million Series C Preferred Stock financing of FullStory, a developer of software tools designed to capture customer experience data*
  • Stripes in multiple financings of Remitly, an online international payments company, including the most recent $220 million Series E financing*
  • Stripes in a $25 million Series B financing of BacklotCars, an online marketplace for automotive sales*
  • Stripes in a $30 million Series B financing of HyperScience, a company that creates AI-centered enterprise solutions for automating work*
  • Stripes in a $15 million financing of Remine, which offers real estate intelligence to agents through its platform that analyzes property records, transaction history, consumer data and delivers opportunities on an intuitive user interface*
  • Stripes in a $53 million financing of Sift Sciences, the leading provider of fraud prevention and risk management solutions using real-time machine learning*
  • Turtle Beach Corporation, a global gaming accessory manufacturer based in San Diego, California, in its acquisition of ROCCAT, a developer of innovative, award-winning gaming mice, keyboards and other accessories, and Neat Microphones, makers of desktop USB microphones*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in a $50 million Series I Preferred Share investment in Zomato Media, an online platform for restaurant discovery and delivery*
  • Glade Brook Capital Partners in a $450 million investment in Miss Fresh, an e-commerce company that delivers fresh produce in 20 Chinese cities*
  • Smash Ventures in its investments in Epic Games, the publisher of Fortnite, NOBULL, a footwear, apparel, and accessory brand, and Manscaped*
  • Companies in the video game industry in a wide variety of matters, including licensing, distribution, development, supply, manufacturing, co-promotion, sponsorship, e-sports and influencer agreements, as well as with respect to IP, data protection and regulatory compliance*

  Life Sciences

  • Ipsen in its acquisition of Epizyme, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for cancer
  • Ipsen in its acquisition of Albireo, a leading innovator in bile-acid modulators to treat liver disease
  • Euclid Vision Systems, a global leader in specialty contact lenses, in its acquisitions of (i) Ennovy Group Limited, a UK-based company that manufactures premium bespoke contact lenses; (ii) Acuity Polymers, a specialty contact lens materials company; and (iii) Visionary Optics, a custom contact lens company that focuses on scleral lenses
  • Stripes in a $70 million Series D investment in Hello Heart, a mobile app that uses AI, behavioral sciences and personalized digital coaching to empower people to embrace healthier behaviors
  • Kain Capital in its investment in MY DR NOW, Arizona's largest privately owned primary care group
  • Kain Capital on its acquisition of HospiceServe
  • Mirae Asset Global Investments in its investment in the (i) $150 million Series B financing of Septerna, an operator of a biotechnology company intended to provide novel small molecule medicines targeting g-protein-coupled receptors; (ii) US$85 million Series B financing of Ensoma, an operator of a biotech company intended to develop genomic medicine, pioneering a next-generation in vivo approach for treatment; (iii) equity financing of Rome Therapeutics, a company discovering new classes of medicines for cancer and auto immune diseases; and (iv) Series C financing of Generate Biomedicines, a company using machine learning, bioengineering and medicine to find breakthroughs
  • Kain Capital in its investment in MindColor Autism Group, a company that provides Applied Behavior Analysis therapy to help improve the lives of children and families impacted by autism*
  • North America Science Associates, Inc., the first independent company in the world to focus solely on testing medical device materials for safety, in its sale of a majority interest to ArchiMed*
  • Celgene Corporation on its acquisition of Avila Therapeutics for up to $925 million, and investments in biotechnology companies, including Jounce, Juno, Nurix, Sutro BioPharma, Forma, Oncomed and Epizyme*
  • Ipsen in connection with its acquisition of global oncology assets from Merrimack Pharmaceuticals for up to $1 billion*
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals on its purchases of Cytokine PharmaSciences and Controlled Therapeutics and its acquisitions of Lysteda from Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals; DDAVP from Sanofi; Milprosa from Teva Women’s Health and orthobiologic product candidates from BioSurface Engineering Technologies*
  • Kain Capital in its acquisition of occupational medicine clinics, including ProCare Work Injury Center, a clinic located in southern California*
  • R-Pharm in its acquisition of Ixempra from Bristol-Myers Squibb*

  Financial Services

  • NextCapital Group, an open-architecture digital advice provider, on its acquisition by Goldman Sachs
  • Global X, a New York-based sponsor of thematic exchange-traded funds, in a joint venture with Tokyo-based Daiwa Securities Group, Japan’s second largest brokerage house, and Daiwa Asset Management to expand access to intelligent outcome-oriented ETFs for Japanese investors and a related $120 million convertible note investment*
  • Wasmer, Schroeder & Company, LLC, a fixed-income investment manager, in its sale to The Charles Schwab Corporation*
  • South Korea-based Mirae Asset Global Investments in its acquisition of Global X Management Company, a sponsor of thematic, income and international exchange-traded funds*
  • Guggenheim Investments in its acquisition of Accretive Asset Management*

  *Matter handled prior to joining Orrick