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Morrison & Forester advised VoiceBase, a leader in real-time speech recognition and conversational analytics, in connection with its sale to LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN), a global leader in Conversational AI.

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Morrison & Forester advised VoiceBase, a leader in real-time speech recognition and conversational analytics, in connection with its sale to LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN), a global leader in Conversational AI.VoiceBase is a world-class voice analytics platform for the enterprise, built on advanced speech recognition technology, which transforms voice and messaging conversations into easily interpreted data and actionable insights. Combining VoiceBase’s capabilities with LivePerson’s Conversational AI gives brands unparalleled visibility into customer intents, sentiments, frustrations, and successes from 100% of conversations across messaging and voice, as well as third-party voice, telephony, or contact center systems. These insights make it easier to improve customer experience, uncover sales opportunities and increase revenue, and understand agent productivity and utilization.The MoFo deal team advising VoiceBase was led by San Francisco corporate partner Brad Kondracki, together with New York corporate associate Amy Chen and San Francisco corporate associates Olga Terets and Hunter Moss. The wider team included San Francisco executive compensation partner Amanda Hines Gold and associates John O’Neill and Olivia Stitz, New York tax partner Anthony Carbone and associate Katherine Erbeznik, Palo Alto technology transactions partner Stephanie Sharron and associate Teresa Garcia, and New York privacy + data security partner Kristen Mathews.Read more about the transaction in LivePerson’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/liveperson-acquires-voicebase-and-tenfold-to-power-scaled-voice-ai-innovation-301409875.html">press release</a>.

MoFo Advises VoiceBase in Sale to LivePerson

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Brad Kondracki is a corporate partner in the San Francisco office.Mr. Kondracki's practice focuses on representing emerging growth companies throughout their life cycle from formation to exit in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, including venture capital financings, corporate formation and structuring, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. In this capacity, he often serves in the role of outside general counsel to his private company clients. Mr. Kondracki also has significant experience advising venture capital firms and other institutional investors on financings and other strategic investments and transactions.In addition, Mr. Kondracki counsels public companies on general corporate and securities law matters, including public company disclosure requirements and SEC compliance.

Bradley Kondracki

Partner

Amy advises on corporate and transactional matters with a special focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions.Her clients have included U.S. and global public and private companies in a wide range of industries including technology, financial services, consumer products, healthcare, life sciences, insurance and private equity. She has worked on a number of complex cross-border transactions in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Amy was Senior Legal Counsel at MILVIK BIMA, a fintech provider of micro-insurance and telehealth solutions, where she helped them navigate the complex regulatory landscapes of emerging markets across Asia, Africa and Latin America. She also served as Senior Legal Counsel at Aviva plc in London, where she advised on a range of corporate and M&A matters, and supported their corporate venture fund focused on technology investments.Amy was also previously a corporate associate at another international law firm in London, where she advised on corporate and cross-border M&A matters.She earned her law degree at the University of Sydney in Australia, and is qualified as an attorney in New York and a solicitor in England & Wales.

Amy Chen

Associate

John O’Neill is an associate in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation practice.John’s practice focuses on executive compensation matters including designing, drafting and negotiating executive employment agreements, administering equity incentive plans and awards, and handling executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financings. He regularly assists public and private companies in navigating tax (particularly Sections 280G and 409A) and securities law issues related to employee benefit plans and executive compensation.Mr. O’Neill earned his J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law and holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. O’Neill was with a Big Four accounting firm, where he focused on U.S. federal income tax considerations in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

John O'Neill

Anthony J. Carbone is a partner in our New York office and chair of the Tax practice. His practice focuses on tax planning strategies and the tax consequences of a wide range of business, investment and capital markets transactions in the U.S. and internationally.He advises clients on all forms of mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, fund formation and leveraged buyouts representing private equity funds, deal sponsors, investment banks, commercial banks and hedge funds, as well as venture capital, real estate and other funds (foreign and U.S.), acquiring target companies, and management groups.Tony has extensive experience on the tax aspects of bankruptcy matters and has been involved in many high-profile matters. He also has extensive experience in the tax aspects of corporate finance transactions representing both financial institutions and their customers and clients. He advises banks and other offshore clients on the tax aspects of their U.S. and offshore business activities, and their offerings of securities and other financial products into the U.S. His experience includes foreign investments in the U.S. and abroad, international joint ventures and international finance transactions.Tony also has extensive experience in a wide variety of securities offerings, including complex debt securities, securitization transactions and derivatives. His expertise includes debt securities that contain an embedded derivative, including finance instruments with returns linked to various types of reference assets.Tony handles federal, state and local tax controversies involving both administration proceedings and litigation in federal and state courts. Tony has also been involved in a number of cases challenging the applicability and/or constitutionality of certain New York State and city tax provisions and has successfully had such proceedings transferred from the State Tax Administration Tribunal to the New York state courts.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Tony was a tax partner at a large, international law firm based in New York and prior to that he was a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he was co-leader of the Tax Group, a former deputy chair of the corporate area, and co-managing partner of Bingham’s New York office. Tony is a member of the American Bar Association (Tax Section) and the New York State Bar Association (Tax Section). He is the former President of the New York Chapter of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Alumni Association and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the university’s alumni organization.Tony is a Certified Public Accountant.

Anthony Carbone

Chair of the Tax Practice

Stephanie assists companies with technology and life sciences transactions, representing both private and public companies, from emerging growth through the Fortune 50. In particular, Stephanie focuses on helping companies that leverage data through technology in structuring their business and commercial transactions.Stephanie has over two decades of experience working with clients on the complex technology, intellectual property, and data rights issues across technology and business sectors, including, among others: artificial intelligence (including machine learning and other data analytics approaches), cloud services, life sciences and healthcare, the Internet of Things (IoT), fintech, digital transactions, autonomous systems, cybersecurity solutions, semiconductors, edtech and cleantech. Additionally, Stephanie advises on the commercial technology and intellectual property aspects of mergers, acquisitions, asset spin-off transactions, and private equity investments. Stephanie serves on the Responsible AI Venture Council, part of the recently launched Lucas Institute for Venture Ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Stephanie is also a member of the firm’s global ESG + Sustainability steering committee as well as the firm’s FinTech steering committee, where she helps to lead and collaborate with attorneys across multiple practices. Stephanie is also a sought-after speaker and thought leader on the issues at the intersection of technology and law, including regarding AI, Life Sciences and FinTech.Since 2016, Stephanie has taught as a guest lecturer in the Technology Transactions course in Cornell Law School’s Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM program at CornellTech. She also was adjunct faculty at Cornell Law School for a Legal Issues in FinTech course.

Stephanie Lynn Sharron

Mergers + Acquisitions