Aaron H. Lorber
Overview
Aaron Lorber is a partner in Kirkland’s Chicago Technology & IP Transactions practice. He focuses his practice on structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex business transactions, including corporate and M&A deals, joint ventures and strategic alliances, IP licenses, supply chain agreements, and outsourcing and other commercial arrangements. Aaron counsels clients on IP and technology issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, debt financing transactions and other forms of corporate and financing transactions. He also is experienced with respect to data security and data privacy issues.
Aaron has also represented clients in patent infringement litigations involving a variety of technologies and actively represents pro bono clients, including various clients referred through the Lawyers for the Creative Arts.
Experience
Representative Matters
Representative Corporate Transactions
- Accenture in its:
- acquisition of Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom, Inc.
- acquisition of Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM)
- joint venture with Apax Partners from the carve out of Accenture’s Duck Creek Technologies insurance claims, billing and policy administration software business
- sale of the Navitaire travel systems business to, and strategic alliance with, Amadeus
- Resonetics, which is owned by GTCR portfolio company Regatta Medical, in its acquisition of the medical business of Hutchinson Technology Inc.
- Thoma Bravo in its pending acquisition of AxiomSL
- GTCR in its pending acquisition of Consumer Cellular, Inc.
- Avaya Holdings Corp. in its strategic partnership with RingCentral, Inc.
- Micro Focus in its acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software business
- Beaute Prestige International (an affiliate of Shiseido) in its acquisition of the Dolce & Gabbana line of fragrance, make-up and skincare products from Procter a& Gamble
- S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. in its acquisitions of Sara Lee’s global shoe care and insecticide businesses, involving a highly complex carve-out of IP assets
- Summit Partners in its acquisition of Perforce, a leading provider of SCM software
- The Carlyle Group in its acquisition and subsequent sale of Metaldyne Corporation, a leading global designer, manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered automotive metal components
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisitions of Polycom’s Spectralink WIFI and DECT mobile phone business, Perfect Timing, Protective Products, Captain D’s, Trulite, Curtiss-Wright’s downstream oil and gas businesses, Furniture Factory Outlet, Burner Systems, Sleep Innovations, and others
- Monomoy Capital Partners in its acquisition of automobile radar detector manufacturer Escort, Inc.
- Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in its acquisition of Infiltrator Water Technologies LLC
- Zebra Technologies in its:
- pending acquisition of Reflexis Systems, Inc.
- acquisition of Motorola Solutions, Inc.’s enterprise business
- pending divestiture of its WLAN devices business
- acquisition of LaserBand LLC, a leading provider of patient identification wristbands and related products
Representative JV and Outsourcing Transactions
- Accretive Health in its long-term revenue collection outsourcing agreement with Ascension Health
- National Grid in its multi-vendor, multi-tower, transformational outsourcing of numerous information technology functions, including infrastructure, data center and cloud computing operations, email hosting, web-based collaboration, managed print services and service integration
- Discovery Holdings, a South African life and health insurance company, in joint ventures for life insurance IT platforms with John Hancock (U.S.) and Manulife (Canada)
- Fortune 500 MRO products supply company in its outsourcing of application management, IT infrastructure, service desk and messaging services
- Major food retailer in its outsourcing of various business process functions, including finance, accounting and payroll
- Fortune 500 industrial products supply company in its outsourcing of the implementation of its international enterprise resource planning system
- Fortune 500 media company in its outsourcing of various critical IT functions
- Major retail property REIT in its outsourcing of data center, data network, disaster recovery and distributed computing IT functions
- Numerous private equity funds in their outsourcing of investor reporting systems to cloud based service providers
Representative Supply Chain Transactions
- Major telecommunications and mobile phone company in a critical supply agreement for ASICs and other integrated circuits and modules
- National paper company in a multi-billion dollar agreement for the supply of thermal and carbonless basepaper
- National window and door manufacture in connection with a critical supply agreement for glass pane components
- National roofing supply wholesaler in connection with a custom software development arrangement
- National dental products company in connection with a supply agreement for absorbent rolls and dental pads
Representative Restructuring / Bankruptcy Transactions
- Dex Media, Inc., a leading international media and marketing company
- Flying J Inc., a fully integrated oil company with operations in the field of exploration, production, refining, transportation, wholesaling and retailing of petroleum products
- Fisker Automotive, Inc. (n/k/a FA Liquidating Corp.), the manufacturer of the first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Robert W. GettlemanUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Prior Experience
PILI Fellow, Illinois Legal Aid Online, Chicago Office, 2008
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago Office, 2007
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Thought Leadership
Seminars
Latest Developments Involving the DMCA Safe Harbors at the Kirkland & Ellis 19th Annual Technology & Law Seminar on May 2012
Issues and negotiation strategies in outsourcing arrangements, Fortune 500 industrial products supply company
Legal efforts standards in commercial agreements, major utility company
Interplay between limitations of liability, indemnification, and insurance, major utility company
Articles
Quoted, "Why are companies battling to snatch up bankrupt retailers? They want your data." NBC News, August 19, 2020.
Recognition
Next Generation Lawyer: Technology: Transactions (The Legal 500 United States), 2018
Next Generation Lawyer: Outsourcing, (The Legal 500 United States), 2018–2019
Recognized for Technology: Transactions (The Legal 500 United States), 2020
Recognized for Outsourcing (The Legal 500 United States), 2020
Rising Star: Technology Transactions (Super Lawyers), 2016–2018
Top Rated Technology Transactions Attorney (Super Lawyers), 2019
Black Duck Certified Legal Specialist*
* The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law, and Black Duck Legal Certification is not a requirement to practice law in Illinois.
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2008Illinois
Education
- Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2008Co-Chair, Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition
- University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignB.S., Computer Science; Business Administration Minor (Secondary Concentration in Finance)with Highest Honors2005