Garth Angelo Osterman

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gosterman@cooley.com
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I have been representing clients in mergers and acquisitions for almost 20 years, across a broad spectrum of industries, with a specialty in international and cross-border transactions.

About Garth

Garth concentrates his practice on M&A, divestitures and buyouts. For more than two decades, he has represented public and private companies in their strategic transactions, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions, including in Eastern Europe, South America, Central America and Asia. His clients include companies of all sizes engaged in US domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings. Garth acts in a variety of capacities in representing his clients, including as lead deal counsel, cross-border structuring adviser, special adviser to shareholders and neutral drafter in multiparty divestiture transactions. In addition, from 2000 to 2022, Garth was a market leader in special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) M&A transactions, representing target companies and SPACs in their business combinations.

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Machinify Announces Acquisition by New Mountain Capital

Machinify Announces Acquisition by New Mountain Capital

January 16, 2025

Cooley advised Machinify, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered software transforming healthcare payments, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by New Mountain Capital.

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Machinify Announces Acquisition by New Mountain Capital

Machinify Announces Acquisition by New Mountain Capital

January 10, 2025

Cooley advised Machinify, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered software transforming healthcare payments, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by New Mountain Capital.

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Partner, Palo Alto
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Partner, San Francisco
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Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Associate, Seattle
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Special Counsel, Washington, DC
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Associate, Palo Alto
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Associate, San Diego
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Associate, Palo Alto
Alison L. Tong
Associate, San Francisco
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Associate, San Diego
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Associate, Colorado
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Associate, San Francisco
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Associate, Palo Alto
Patricia Myers
Paralegal Specialist, Colorado
Melanie Yuvienco
Paralegal Specialist, Palo Alto
Brian Mitchell
Transactional Quantitative Analyst, San Diego

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H1 Acquires Ribbon Health

H1 Acquires Ribbon Health

January 8, 2025

Cooley advised H1, a global healthcare data technology company, on its acquisition of Ribbon Health.

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Confluent Acquires WarpStream

Confluent Acquires WarpStream

September 9, 2024

Cooley advised Confluent, a data-streaming platform pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion, on its acquisition of WarpStream, an Apache Kafka-compatible data-streaming platform.

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Lavoro to Become Publicly Traded Through Business Combination With TPB Acquisition Corporation I

Lavoro to Become Publicly Traded Through Business Combination With TPB Acquisition Corporation I

April 24, 2023

Cooley advised TPB Acquisition Corporation I, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by The Production Board, in its business combination agreement that will result in Lavoro Limited, a leading agricultural inputs retailer in Latin America, becoming a US publicly listed company with an implied initial enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion.

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