2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
Jane Ross
Office Managing Partner Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Chambers USA"She wows everyone with her intellectual horsepower and can anticipate what I'm thinking. She's one of the finest technical lawyers I've ever worked with. She has remarkable talent."
Jane Ross represents buyers and sellers of public and private companies across many industries, with a focus on the technology and life sciences sectors.
Jane has handled multibillion-dollar transactions for many of Silicon Valley's most recognizable industry-leading technology companies, as well as major global companies in the areas of life sciences and digital health. Her practice includes domestic and cross-border M&A and complex joint venture transactions.
Jane is recognized as a Leading Dealmaker in America by Lawdragon 2025, is ranked as a top-tier M&A lawyer by Chambers USA and Chambers Global, and IFLR1000 recognizes her as a “Highly regarded” lawyer for M&A in technology and telecommunications in the U.S.
Jane’s previous accolades include recognition as: one of the “Best in Mergers and Acquisitions” by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Awards in 2015; an “expert” in M&A by Expert Guides: Women in Business Law in 2022; and one of the “California Attorneys of the Year” by California Lawyer in 2012. Jane was also included in the Daily Journal’s prestigious list of Top 100 lawyers in California in 2020.
The Legal 500 describes Jane as “a wonderful M&A lawyer” who is “a pragmatic straight shooter, cost effective, and driven to achieve great results for her clients.”
Chambers USA"She wows everyone with her intellectual horsepower and can anticipate what I'm thinking. She's one of the finest technical lawyers I've ever worked with. She has remarkable talent."
Representative experience
Salesforce on multiple transactions, including its US$1.9bn acquisition of Own Company and its acquisitions of Zoomin, Datorama, and Bonobo AI
Intel on the sale of minority interests in its IMS Nanofabrication GmbH business, valued at US$4.3bn, to Bain Capital, TSMC and Jeol Ltd.
Walmart on several acquisitions, including its US$2.3bn acquisition of VIZIO and its US$16bn acquisition of a majority stake in Flipkart
Intel Corporation on several acquisitions, including its US$15.4bn acquisition of Altera* and its US$900m acquisition of Moovit
Meta / Facebook on multiple transactions, including its US$16bn acquisition of WhatsApp* and its US$5.7bn investment in Jio Platforms Limited in India
PayPal on multiple transaction, including its acquisition and subsequent sale of Happy Returns and its acquisition of Chargehound
Adobe on multiple transactions, including its US$4.75bn acquisition of Marketo and its US$1.68bn acquisition of Magento Commerce
eBay on multiple transactions, including its US$2.4bn acquisition and subsequent sale of GSI Commerce* and its acquisition of Giosis Pte Ltd's Japanese ecommerce business, including the Qoo10 platform
Gilead on multiple transactions, including its approximate US$1.4bn acquisition of CV Therapeutics and its US$600m acquisition of Calistoga Pharmaceuticals*
Jazz Pharmaceuticals' US$1bn acquisition of Gentium S.p.A.*
Novartis on its acquisition of Amblyotech
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- LL.B., McGill University, with distinction, 1997
- B.C.L., McGill University, with distinction, 1997
- B.Com., McGill University, 1993
Bar admissions and qualifications
- California
- Quebec