Erin Hanson
Biography
Overview
Erin Hanson is a partner in the Firm's Technology Transactions Practice within the Firm's Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Global Intellectual Property Group. She is also co-head of White & Case's Artificial Intelligence Taskforce.
Erin is a transactional attorney, specializing in intellectual property ("IP") and technology transactions and counseling. Erin offers clients legal and commercial advice across the spectrum of standalone IP and technology transactions, including all aspects of IP and technology licensing, development and joint-development agreements, evaluation and testing agreements, strategic alliances, distribution, outsourcing, cloud and "as-a-service" arrangements. Erin also advises on the IP and technology aspects of M&A, private equity and other corporate transactions, including acquisitions, divestments, carve-outs, and joint ventures. Her work includes representing both strategic and financial clients, across a number of industries, including social media, software, hardware, telecommunications, clean-tech, data and analytics, digital health and financial services, in matters relating to a wide variety of technologies such as e-commerce, platform technologies, artificial intelligence, big data, autonomous driving, and the internet of things.
Erin's clients benefit from her strong international experience, having practiced in both Australia and the United States.
Prior to joining White & Case, Erin was a Senior Associate at one of the Australian offices of another Multinational Law Firm headquartered in Hong Kong.
Erin is ranked Band 3 for Technology in Chambers USA 2023-2024 and was named "Up & Coming" Lawyer for Technology & Outsourcing in New York by Chambers USA, 2021; 2022. She won the New York Law Journal's Individual Award for Innovation (2024), is listed as a "Recognized Individual" by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Strategy 300 (2024) and IAM Patent 1000 (2020 - 2024) and is a recipient of a "40 under 40 Emerging Leaders Award" by The M&A Advisor (2019). Erin is also listed as a "Rising Star" for Mergers & Acquisitions by The Deal (2020), ILFR (2020) and Euromoney (2021).
Experience
Falcon Capital Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: FCAC), a SPAC, in its US$3.9 billion business combination with Sharecare, Inc., a digital health company based in Georgia.
dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (NYSE: DMYQ), a SPAC, in its US$2.8 billion acquisition of Planet Labs Inc., a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth.
ION Acquisition Corp 1 Ltd. (NYSE: IACA), a SPAC, in its US$2.6 billion business combination with Taboola.com Ltd., an Israeli private company and a global leader in powering recommendations for the open web.
WhatsApp in connection with the WhatsApp commercial/product integration piece of Meta's (then Facebook) US$5.7 billion investment into Jio Platforms Ltd.
Meta (formerly Facebook) in connection with various intellectual property, product, content, and technology transactions.
Meta (formerly Facebook) in connection with its new Portal devices and service.
Harvest Partners in an investment in MRI Software, a leading provider of real estate management software solutions globally.
Avon Rubber p.l.c., a UK-listed innovative technology group, specializing in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) and respiratory protection systems, on its strategic acquisition of 3M’s ballistic-protection business in the United States.
Schneider Electric in connection with the formation of a joint venture with Huck Capital and certain individuals that will comprise the management team of the newly launched joint venture, which will deliver energy-as-a-service projects in the North America market up to 10MW in size.
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) in two joint ventures with Yahsat, a leading global satellite operator based in the United Arab Emirates and wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company. The joint ventures provide commercial Ka-band satellite broadband services across Africa and Brazil, and will continue to provide unserved and underserved communities with reliable, high-speed Internet services.
Intel Corporation in connection with a series of acquisitions, divestures and other projects in sectors such as autonomous vehicles and Internet of Things.
Iconix Brand Group in the US$345 million sale of its entertainment division to DHX Media, which includes an 80 percent controlling interest in the Peanuts branded business and 100 percent of the Strawberry Shortcake business.
Ranked for Technology (New York), Chambers USA 2024
Recognized Leading Lawyer, IAM Strategy 300 2024
Innovation Award Winner, New York Law Journal 2024
Leading Individual for Technology, Chambers USA 2023
Recognized Individual, Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000, 2020-2023
Named "Up & Coming" Lawyer for Technology & Outsourcing in New York, Chambers USA, 2021, 2022
"Rising Star" for Mergers & Acquisitions, Euromoney, 2021
Recognized Individual, Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000, 2020
"Rising Star" for Mergers & Acquisitions, The Deal, 2020
"Rising Star" for Mergers & Acquisitions, IFLR, 2020
Recipient of a "Emerging Leaders Award" for Mergers & Acquisitions, The M&A Advisor, 2019
