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MoFo Advises Autodesk on Acquisition of Moxion

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Morrison & Foerster advised Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) in connection with its acquisition of Moxion, the New Zealand-based developer of a powerful, cloud-based platform for digital dailies used by leading filmmakers on some of the world’s most complex and challenging productions, including “The Midnight Sky,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “The Matrix Resurrections.”



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Morrison & Foerster advised Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) in connection with its acquisition of Moxion, the New Zealand-based developer of a powerful, cloud-based platform for digital dailies used by leading filmmakers on some of the world’s most complex and challenging productions, including “The Midnight Sky,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “The Matrix Resurrections.”Founded in 2015, Moxion enables professionals to collaborate and review camera footage on-set and remotely with the efficiency and immediacy required to make creative decisions during principal photography in 4K high dynamic range (HDR) quality and with studio-grade security, reducing rework. The acquisition of Moxion’s talent and technology will expand Autodesk’s own cloud platform for the media and entertainment industry upstream, moving beyond post-production into production, and bringing new users to Autodesk while helping better integrate processes across the entire content production chain.The MoFo team advising Autodesk on the deal was led by San Francisco corporate partner Eric McCrath and technology transactions partner Justin Haan, together with Tokyo corporate partner Leo Aguilar, San Francisco associates Matt O’Donnell, Scott Chen, Alex Siegel, Molly Yoder, Emmanuel Perez, Julie Siegel, and Gabi Hasson, and Los Angeles associate Kelly Kan. The wider team included Boston privacy + data security partner Julie O’Neill, Palo Alto associate Eleanor Anthony, and New York associate Cecillia Xie; New York tax partners Anthony Carbone and Dave Sturgeon, and San Francisco associate Yuan Xia; and San Francisco executive compensation partner Amanda Hines Gold.Read more about the transaction in Autodesk’s <a target="_blank" href="https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-details/autodesk-acquires-moxion-cloud-solution-digital-dailies">press release</a>.

MoFo Advises Autodesk on Acquisition of Moxion

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Eric T. McCrath is the Chair of Morrison Foerster.Eric has been a trusted advisor on hundreds of public and private M&A, private equity, and financing transactions over the course of his career. As part of his market-leading M&A practice, he counsels strategic acquirers and targets in a variety of industries, including technology (semiconductors, software, AR/VR, FinTech, AI), healthcare, consumer products, financial institutions, media, gaming, and transportation. He represents leading U.S. and global companies and regularly advises on complex cross–border transactions.Eric is regularly recognized by leading publications, including Legal 500 US and Chambers USA, with client sources describing him as “greatly skilled at advising on the most complex and high–profile M&A transactions,” and noting that he “combines strong technical skills and a flair for complexity with commercial awareness, pragmatism and sound judgment.”Eric joined Morrison Foerster as a partner in 2007. He has held multiple leadership roles at the firm prior to being elected chair in June 2022. He has been a member of Morrison Foerster’s Executive Committee since 2016, the Compensation Committee since 2019, has served as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department of over 400 lawyers since 2018, and has also held a number of practice leadership roles.A diverse lawyer of Asian heritage, Eric is also one of the longest-standing members of Morrison Foerster’s Diversity Strategy Committee, having served since 2010.

Eric McCrath

Chair

Justin Haan is a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions Group in the San Francisco office, advising leading technology industry pioneers to help them navigate their most critical IP and technology needs.Justin’s practice focuses on transactions and counseling involving intellectual property and technology, including licensing arrangements, technology transfers, and joint development activities. Justin structures, drafts, and negotiates a wide range of commercial agreements, including software and content licenses, service agreements, reseller arrangements, and collaboration, manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements. He advises clients on the development, procurement and commercialization of cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented/virtual reality, semiconductors, cloud computing services, autonomous vehicles, and unmanned aircraft systems. Justin also counsels clients on open source software, complex patent-related transactions, and the intellectual property aspects of M&A transactions. Justin’s experience includes advising OpenAI, Arm, Autodesk, Meta, Salesforce, SoftBank, Unity, and others on the IP aspects of complex projects involving cutting-edge technologies and fast-evolving areas of law. Justin serves on the firm’s AI industry committee, where he helps to lead and collaborate with attorneys across multiple practices on the rapid advances of generative AI. Justin is also a sought–after speaker and thought leader on artificial intelligence and has spoken at SXSW on the subject of multimodal AI.Before joining the firm, Justin was an intellectual property associate in the New York office of another global law firm.Justin received his J.D., with a certificate in law and technology, from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he won the Prosser Prize in intellectual property in the entertainment industries and was an articles editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He received his A.B. from Harvard University.

Justin H. Haan

Partner

Matthew O'Donnell is a partner in the firm's Mergers + Acquisitions Group in the San Francisco office. His practice focuses on corporate transactions and other general corporate matters, with an emphasis on U.S. and international/cross-border M&A and other strategic transactions.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster's San Francisco office, Matthew was an associate in the firm's Tokyo office. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law School Science and Technology Law Review, and his B.A. from Williams College.

Matt O'Donnell

Scott Chen is an associate in the New York office of Morrison Foerster and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Group.His practice is focused on transactional matters involving a broad range of intellectual property and technology, including licensing, development agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, outsourcing, investments, and mergers and acquisitions. Scott works across a variety of industries, including the areas of software and cloud services, software development, biotech, sponsored research, clinical trials, fintech, blockchain applications, data licensing and distribution, and video game distribution. In addition to his practice, Scott is an active member of the firm’s pro bono efforts.Scott earned his J.D. from the New York University School of Law where he was the Notes Editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal. Scott holds a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University. Prior to joining the firm, Scott was a summer associate in the San Francisco office during the summer of 2019.

Scott Chen

Associate

Molly Yoder is a corporate associate in the Palo Alto office of Morrison Foerster.Prior to joining the firm as an associate, Molly was a summer associate in Morrison Foerster’s San Francisco office.Molly earned her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where she was a Senior Editor of the Journal of Law and Technology and a Writing Advisor for the Legal Research and Writing Program. She also served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Karen E. Scott in the United States District Court, Central District of California.She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Molly Yoder

Kelly Kan is a corporate associate in the Los Angeles office of Morrison Foerster.Kelly advises on complex corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions and private equity matters, and she also counsels on corporate governance.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Kelly was an associate at another major law firm, where she practiced securities and corporate law.Kelly earned her J.D. from Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She earned her Bachelor of Commerce from the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.She also volunteers her time as a mentor with the Girl E-Mentorship Program.Kelly holds oral fluency in Cantonese and is conversational in Mandarin.

Kelly Kan

Clients seek out Julie because of her practical advice on cutting-edge issues at the intersection of privacy and consumer protection laws. She provides clients with practical solutions to compliance challenges around a wide variety of both online and offline privacy issues, including tracking, interest-based advertising, geo-targeting and other mobile tracking, personalization, and cross-device tracking. Recognized in The Legal 500 US 2014, 2016, 2019, and 2020 and Chambers USA 2021 for her exceptional legal work, her clients praise her saying, “She is really good at giving practical, targeted advice and taking stock of what the risk profile of the client is, so that the advice is holistic.” (Chambers USA 2021).Julie provides clients with creative and practical advice on meeting the requirements of state and federal privacy laws, including the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). She crafts guidelines and compliance programs for clients’ collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in diverse contexts and throughout the life cycle of their initiatives, such as for connected products (the Internet of Things) and mobile services. She also drafts privacy and cookies policies, online service terms of use, agreements involving online and offline advertising and marketing practices, and agreements concerning a variety of data uses. In addition, Julie helps clients assess and manage privacy risks, including in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.Julie creates compliance programs for clients’ use of a wide variety of channels for communicating with and marketing to consumers, including email, telephone, text message, and fax, both in the United States and around the world. She works with clients to develop their social media strategies and to clear their social media content. She also reviews advertising in both traditional and new media for compliance with applicable laws, including Section 5 of the FTC Act and various FTC rules and guides. In addition, she works with clients to structure, market, and implement their sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions in compliance with applicable laws.As a former FTC staff attorney, Julie regularly defends companies in investigations by the FTC and before data protection authorities around the world.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>A company that creates online software used by schools in an FTC investigation of alleged COPPA violations.</li><li>A consumer services company investigated by the Korean data protection authority for alleged privacy violations</li><li>A manufacturer in connection with a challenge of its environmental advertising claims by the FTC </li><li>An advertising services company in an investigation of alleged privacy-related violations of the FTC Act</li><li>An online provider of entertainment services in an FTC investigation of alleged COPPA violations</li><li>A beverage company in an FTC investigation of alleged COPPA violations</li></ul>Before attending law school, Julie was a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa.

Julie 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

David Sturgeon is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Federal Tax practice.Dave advises clients on a broad range of complex business transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs and other divestitures, as well as financings, refinancings, restructurings and other business transactions.He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Chicago Journal of International Law, and received his Master of Laws in taxation from New York University School of Law.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Dave was an associate at a law firm in New York, where he represented public companies, financial institutions, private equity clients and other sponsor entities across industries in an extensive range of business transactions.

Dave Sturgeon

Yuan Xia is an associate at Morrison Foerster’s Palo Alto office. She is a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation practice group.Yuan’s practice focuses on the transactional aspects of executive compensation matters in the context of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, public offerings and restructurings. Yuan regularly counsels public companies, private equity funds, and startup companies on the design and implementation of equity, incentive and non-qualified deferred compensation agreements, change in control, retention and severance, and executive employment agreements. Yuan also has distinct experience advising public companies on executive compensation disclosures for annual proxy statements and merger proxies, initial public offerings and Form 8–Ks. Yuan was recognized by Legal 500 US as a Rising Star in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans (Transaction) for 2024.Prior to joining the firm, Yuan was an associate at another international law firm headquartered in New York.