パートナー

Alina A. Azizian

Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
Life Sciences
Technology

aazizian@sidley.com

シカゴ +1 312 853 2087

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ALINA AZIZIAN is a member of Sidley’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice where she advises on a broad variety of corporate matters to support clients in the high technology and life sciences industries.

Alina provides strategic counseling to emerging and high growth companies at all stages of the company’s life cycle from formation to IPO or acquisition. Alina has extensive experience representing companies in venture capital financings, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions and regularly advises companies on general corporate and governance matters, including employment law, equity compensation, and intellectual property law. Alina’s experience also includes representing venture capital firms and strategic investors.

Prior to joining Sidley, Alina was an associate at a leading Silicon Valley law firm focusing on technology and life sciences industries as well as a large multinational law firm where she represented emerging technology and life sciences companies, investors, and financial institutions in corporate transactions, including venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, commercial finance transactions, and public offerings.

経験

Placer.ai, a geolocation and proximity data analytics technology company, in its additional US$75 million financing at a US$1.5 billion valuation.
Digma Inc., a developer of a continuous feedback platform intended to enable code analysis for developers in a production environment, in its Series Seed Financing.
Flip, a next-generation social and live e-ecommerce platform, on its US$60 million Series B funding led by WestCap, with participation from Streamlined Ventures and other investors.
Placer.ai, a geolocation and proximity data analytics technology startup, in its $100 million Series C financing, which was led by Josh Buckley, with participation from WndrCo, Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures, and Array Ventures.
Reali, a real estate technology company transforming home-buying and selling, in the close of its US$250 million Series B financing led by Zeev Ventures with participation from Akkadian Ventures, Signia Ventures, Group 11, and others.
Salt Security in the completion of a US$70 million Series C funding round which was led by Advent, with participation from Alkeon Capital and DFJ Growth. Existing investors, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, and Y Combinator, also participated.
Vim Inc., a healthcare technology company that aligns incentives between health plans and care providers to empower value-based care decisions, in the completion of its US$60 million Series B funding round led by Walgreens, Anthem, and Optum Ventures, with participation from Great Point Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Frist Cressey Ventures, and Premera Blue Cross.
Placer.ai, a geolocation and proximity data analytics technology start-up, in its $50 million Series B financing round led by Josh Buckley with participation from Aleph, BrightStreet Ventures, Fifth Wall, JBV Capital, Rahul Vohra, and Todd Goldberg.
SentinelOne, an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, in its $267 million Series F financing round let by Tiger Global Management.
Gitlab, a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, in its $100 million Series D financing led by ICONIQ Capital.
Metagenomi, a next-generation gene-editing company launched by UC Berkeley scientists in 2018, in its $65 million Series A financing round.
Federation Bio, a microbial therapeutics company targeting diseases in which the human microbiome can play a curative role, in its $50 million Series A financing.
Lemonaid Health, an on-demand platform for accessing healthcare online, in its $33 million Series B financing.
Salt Security, a leading API security company, in its $30 million Series B financing led by Sequoia Capital.
Playground Ventures, Next47 (the global venture backed by Siemens), Hikma Ventures (the strategic venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC), and 40 North Ventures in various investments.
ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX:RMD), a global leader in sleep apnea treatment and connected health solutions, in its agreement to form a new joint venture with Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company developing tools to collect and organize health data.

*Some of the above matters were handled by Alina prior to joining Sidley.

資格

弁護士資格・登録

California
Illinois
Illinois Circuit Court, Cook County

学歴

Boston University School of Law, J.D., 2009
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2004 (Departmental Honors, University Distinction)