Gabrielle Hodgson

Associate, Silicon Valley

Biography

Overview

Gabrielle Hodgson is an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in White & Case's Silicon Valley office.

Gabrielle advises both public and private clients in connection with domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions, divestitures, restructurings, and joint ventures in a broad range of industries, including energy, food, entertainment, transportation, banking and payment services, life sciences and technology. Within the technology industry, representative transactions have spanned semiconductors, cloud computing, drones, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, digital health, fintech and wearable devices.

Gabrielle was recognized in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions of Best Lawyers as "One to Watch" in the categories of Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Venture Capital Law, and Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law.

Bars and Courts
California
Education
JD
Harvard Law School
BS
Physics
University of British Columbia
Languages
English
German

Experience

Brookfield Infrastructure (NYSE: BIP; TSX: BIP.UN), which partnered with GIC Special Investments, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and institutional partners of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., to acquire Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE: GWR), a freight railroad owner and operator based in the United States, in a deal valued at US$8.4 billion.

IFM Investors, an Australian institutional funds manager, in its US$10.3 billion acquisition of Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL), a publicly traded master limited partnership which owns and operates a diversified global network of pipeline assets and midstream logistics solutions.

NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG), a leading energy and home services company, on the US$500 million sale of its Airtron business, a provider of HVAC services for residential new construction homes, to Gamut Capital Management, L.P.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD), a leading global cybersecurity company, on its acquisitions of Flow Security Ltd, the industry's first cloud data runtime security solution, and Bionic Stork Ltd., the pioneer of application security posture management.

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (NYSE: ELAN), a U.S. pharmaceutical company and global leader in animal health, in the US$1.3 billion sale of its aqua business to Merck Animal Health, a division of Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK).

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) on its acquisition of McDermott's entire stake in NET Power, LLC.

BM Technologies, Inc., one of the largest digital banking platforms in the United States focused on student loan payments, on its sale to First Carolina Bank, a North Carolina state-chartered bank.

Vox Media Holdings, Inc., a leading independent modern media company, on its equity financing transaction involving an investment by Penske Media Corporation (PMC), a leading global media and information services company.

CyArx Technologies Ltd. (Siemplify), an Israeli cybersecurity and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider, in its sale to Google LLC.

Zanite Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ZNTE, ZNTEU, ZNTEW), a SPAC focused on the aviation sector, in its US$2.4 billion business combination agreement with Embraer S.A., a Brazilian multinational aerospace manufacturer, to acquire EVE UAM, LLC, an Urban Air Mobility business.

Epic Aero, Inc., a global leader in subscription-based private aviation, on its entry into a US$3 billion business combination with Horizon Acquisition Corporation II, a SPAC.

FS Development Corp. II (NASDAQ: FSII), a SPAC, in its US$276.2 million business combination with Pardes Biosciences, Inc., an early stage biopharmaceutical company developing an oral antiviral drug to treat and prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections.

dMY Technology Group, Inc. II (NYSE: DMYD), a SPAC, in its US$1.68 billion business combination with UK-based Genius Sports Group.

Deerfield Healthcare Technology Acquisitions Corp. (NASDAQ: DFHT), a SPAC, in its US$614 million business combination with CareMax Medical Group LLC and IMC Medical Group Holdings LLC, technology-enabled providers of value-based care to seniors.

FS Development Corp. (NASDAQ: FSDC), a SPAC, in its US$216 million business combination with Gemini Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage precision medicine company developing treatments for genetically defined age-related macular degeneration.

Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNTH), a leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative diagnostic imaging agents and products, in its acquisition of Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNC), an oncology company focused on the development of targeted medicines and artificial intelligence to find and fight cancer.

Cellular Biomedicine Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBMG), a biopharmaceutical firm engaged in the drug development of immunotherapies for cancer and stem cell therapies for degenerative diseases, in its acquisition by a consortium of international investors.

Biosight Ltd., a privately held pharmaceutical development company developing innovative therapeutics for hematological malignancies, in its reverse merger transaction with Advaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADXS).

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group managing funds for public retirement and insurance plans, of its acquisition of majority ownership in Wizeline, Inc., a global technology services provider.

OpenText Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), in its US$75 million acquisition of XMedius, a provider of secure information exchange and communication solutions.

HB Reavis, Europe's leading innovative workplace provider and international real estate developer, in the sale of its interest in Cambridge Innovation Center, a company providing shared workspaces for entrepreneurs and emerging companies, to third party funds.

Robotic Research (d/b/a Forterra), a leading provider of autonomous systems for ground-based movement focused on protecting front-line soldiers and enabling civilian industrial workers, in its US$75 million Series B financing round.

EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) in the tax-free spin-off and subsequent merger of its broadcast satellite service business, including nine satellites and certain real estate owned by EchoStar, with a subsidiary of DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH).

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, the world's largest oil company by production, in its US$69.1 billion acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC), one of the world's largest chemicals companies, from the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

REE Automotive Ltd., an electric-vehicle technology startup based in Israel, in its US$3.6 billion go-public acquisition by 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: VCVCU), a SPAC.

Luxoft Holding, Inc. (NYSE: LXFT), a global technology services and consulting company headquarted in Zug, Switzerland, in its US$2 billion all-cash acquisition by DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), an independent, end-to-end global IT services company based in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

Softbank Vision Fund II and Eldridge in their US$235 million co-investment in Anyvision, an Israeli artificial intelligence-based facial recognition startup.

Hello Heart, the only digital therapeutic Company that focuses exclusively on heart health, on its US$70 million Series D financing.

ABE Global LLC, a provider of institutional brokerage services for the cryptocurrency market, in its formation and sale of membership interests to venture capital funds focused on digital asset-based investments.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), in numerous mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, in sectors such as artificial intelligence, digital media streaming, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Roark Capital Group, and Inspire Brands, Inc., owner of the Arby's and Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chains, in Inspire Brands' cash acquisition of Sonic. Corp. (NASDAQ: Sonic), a drive-in fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma, in a transaction valued at approximately US$2.3 billion, including the assumption of Sonic Corp.'s net debt.

NETGEAR, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGR) in its acquisition of Meural Inc., an industry-leading developer of WiFi-connected digital frame technology.

Aixtron Inc., a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, in its sale of its Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) memory product line to Eugene Technology Inc., a wholly owned US subsidiary of Eugene Technology Co., Ltd (KOSDAQ: 084370), of South Korea.

CyberArk Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CYBR), an Israel-based corporation specializing in privileged account management and secrets protection, in its US$42 million acquisition of Conjur, Inc., a provider of DevOps security software.

Publications

Delaware Chancery Court Finds Material Adverse Effect Permitting Buyer to Walk Away from Merger Agreement (Oct. 2018) (Client Alert discussing MAE finding in Akorn v. Frensenius).

Delaware Supreme Court Reaffirms Incomplete Disclosures Do Not Qualify for Corwin Business Judgment Rule "Cleansing" (July 2018) (Client Alert discussing decision in Morrison v. Berry).

Privacy Shield, DATAGUIDANCE (Feb. 2018) (providing an overview of the EU-US Privacy Shield certification process).

Privacy Shield: Recent Developments (April 2017) (Technology Newsflash discussing developments in the EU-US Privacy Shield framework).

Privacy Concerns Prompt Protests in California, 69 PHYSICS TODAY 46 (Dec. 2016) (investigating the intersection of neural-network computing and data privacy).