Frederick Baron

Senior Counsel
fbaron@cooley.com
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It is enormously rewarding to advise boards, investment funds, and companies on urgent and complex employment-related issues that have the attention of the top decision makers.

About Frederick

Frederick Baron specializes in business litigation and prelitigation counseling, concentrating on representation of investment funds, life sciences and information technology companies, and chief executive officers. His practice has included litigation, arbitration and mediation in the areas of employment, trade secrets, contracts, investment fund realignments, board of director assessments, senior executive agreements, and employment issues in merger/acquisition transactions. 

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Experience

Zulily Sells to Liberty Interactive for $2.4 Billion

Zulily Sells to Liberty Interactive for $2.4 Billion

August 18, 2015

Cooley advised zulily on its $2.4 billion sale to Liberty Interactive, parent company of QVC.

Zulily is an e-commerce flash-sales site. Liberty Interactive owns interests in subsidiaries and other companies that are primarily engaged in the video and digital commerce industries.

Zulily has been a Cooley client since its formation in 2009. The founders of zulily, Mark Vadon and Darrell Cavens, came from Cooley client BlueNile, which Mark Vadon also founded. In 2013, Cooley took zulily public.

The team advising zulily on its sale to Liberty included John Robertson, Alan Hambelton, Julia Conway, Colleen Burns, Brian Woodard, Frederick Baron, Lois Voelz, Barbara Mirza, Mark Tanoury, Jamie Leigh, Kevin King, Danish Hamid, Karen Tsai and Mike Tollini.

Related contacts

Barbara Mirza
Partner, Santa Monica
John Robertson
Partner, Seattle
Alan Hambelton
Partner, Seattle
Colleen Badgley
Partner, Seattle
Brian Woodard
Paralegal Specialist, Seattle
Frederick Baron
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Lois Voelz
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Mark Tanoury
Partner, Palo Alto
Jamie Leigh
Partner, San Francisco
Kevin King
Partner, Washington, DC
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Michael Tollini
Partner, Washington, DC

Related Practices & Industries

Mergers and Acquisitions

Admissions and credentials

California

Rankings and accolades

Daily Journal: Top employment defense attorneys in California

Best Lawyers in America: Lawyer of the Year - Labor and Employment Law (2021-2022)

Who's Who in American Law

Chambers USA Edition: Leader in labor and employment in California



Memberships and affiliations

American Bar Association (ABA)

Santa Clara County Bar Association