Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP announced that its client UberMedia was recently acquired by Near.  UberMedia aggregates mobile location data from a variety of sources into location insights and other products that guide strategic decisions for organizations of all sizes.

For the full article regarding Near's acquisition of UberMedia, click here.

SA&M Attorneys Advising Near in this transaction included:

Louis Wharton, Scott Alderton, Michael Shaff, Kelly Siobhan Laffey, Jared Brenner, Brent Armitage, and Daniel Garber.

About Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ Mergers & Acquisitions Practice

The Firm’s Mergers & Acquisition Group advises clients in connection with a full range of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, both public and private, domestic and international. At the commencement of a transaction, we bring our problem solving entrepreneurial spirit and unique practical experience to structure transactions, and to develop a due diligence process that focuses on the key value drivers for the business, including analyzing intellectual property rights and assets. The Firm’s experience and knowledge help ensure that you will successfully negotiate and close the most complicated transactions. Regardless of a company’s size or stage of development, we make our collective expertise, gained from handling a multitude of successful merger, acquisition and strategic transactions, available to each of our clients. The Firm prides itself on being able to devote significantly more high-level attention to our clients’ matters than other sophisticated law firms. Throughout the process, we work with management, keeping them fully informed and strategizing with them as developments arise. We pride ourselves on being highly responsive to our clients.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles' client HouseCanary, a real estate technology company offering the most accurate home valuations, has acquired Dropmodel, a technology startup with analytic and financial modeling solutions for the single-family real estate asset class. Additionally, Dropmodel Co-Founder Tom Blake has joined the HouseCanary team as Vice President of Investor Platform. This is the first acquisition for HouseCanary which recently closed a $65M Series C growth funding round.

To read the full press release visit here. 

Stubbs Alderton attorneys representing in this transaction were Caroline Cherkassky, Jared Brenner, and Greg Akselrud.

About HouseCanary:

Founded in 2013, valuation-focused real estate brokerage HouseCanary provides software and services to reshape the real estate marketplace. Financial institutions, investors, lenders, mortgage investors, appraisal management companies, and consumers turn to HouseCanary for industry-leading valuations, forecasts, and transaction-support tools. These clients trust HouseCanary to fuel acquisition, underwriting, portfolio management, and more. Learn more at www.housecanary.com.

For more information about our Venture Capital & Emerging Growth practice or our Mergers & Acquisitions practice, contact Scott  Alderton at  or Greg Akselrud at .

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ client Tot Squad has sold its baby gear cleaning and repair services for an undisclosed sum to BabyQuip, the world’s leading mom-powered baby gear rental service. Such services will be rebranded as BabyQuip Cleaning Services and this critical service will be available immediately in Los Angeles and Washington, DC. BabyQuip will also be taking over Tot Squad’s partnership with Uber, providing thoroughly clean and sanitized car seats to families in NYC. Tot Squad will now focus on virtual and in-person services like lactation support and sleep consulting, as well as continuing with car seat installations.

SA&M attorneys that represented Tot Squad in this transaction were Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey.

To read the full press release visit here. 

About the new Tot Squad

TotSquad.com is a curated marketplace that connects new parents with services, delivered via video-chat & in-person. From pregnancy to the playground, Tot Squad’s mission is to improve access to services like sleep & lactation consulting, car seat installation & babyproofing. Founded in 2010 by Founder & CEO Jennifer Beall Saxton, the company has served nearly 100,000 families.

About BabyQuip

Founded in May 2016, BabyQuip is the world's leading baby gear rental service, delivering thousands of clean, quality baby gear items to families who don't want to haul bulky gear while traveling throughout the US and Canada. The platform will soon enable gig-economy moms and others the opportunity to clean baby gear on behalf of families. Strategic BabyQuip partnerships include Destination Hotels (a Hyatt brand), Guesty, HomeAway, and UrbanSitter. For additional details on BabyQuip, including a list of Quality Providers, please visit babyquip.com.

For more information about our Emerging Growth & Venture Capital Practice, contact Scott Alderton at or Louis Wharton at .

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ client AllTrails, the most trusted and used digital guide to the outdoors, announced the acquisition of German-based outdoor recreation platform, GPSies. The deal further enhances AllTrails' trail coverage across Europe and cements its position as the most comprehensive global resource for outdoor recreation.

To read the full press release visit here.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ attorney representing AllTrails in this deal is Louis Wharton.

About AllTrails
AllTrails helps people explore the outdoors with the largest collection of detailed, hand-curated trail maps as well as trail reviews and photos crowdsourced from its community of over 11 million hikers, mountain bikers and trail runners. AllTrails has the #1 Outdoors app for iOS & Android with more than 14 million mobile downloads and reaches 46 million people each year through alltrails.com, the App Store and Google Play.

For more information about our Mergers and Acquisitions practice area contact Louis Wharton at 

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ client AllTrails,  the most trusted and used digital guide to the outdoors, announced its acquisition of iFootpath, the #1 paid travel app in the UK. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

To read the full press release visit here.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ attorneys representing AllTrails in this deal are Louis Wharton and David Stoops.

About AllTrails
AllTrails helps people explore the outdoors with the largest collection of detailed, hand-curated trail maps as well as trail reviews and photos crowdsourced from its community of over 11 million hikers, mountain bikers and trail runners. AllTrails has the #1 Outdoors app for iOS & Android with more than 14 million mobile downloads and reaches 46 million people each year through alltrails.com, the App Store and Google Play.

For more information about our Mergers and Acquisitions practice area contact Louis Wharton at 

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles' client, Central Valley Meat Company, announced this week that Central Valley Meat Holding Company has acquired Harris Ranch Beef Holding Company, including its wholly owned subsidiaries, Harris Feeding Company and Harris Ranch Beef Company.

The SA&M team was led by partners Marc Kenny and Sean Greaney and also included key deal team members Jonathan Hodes, Shanita Nicholas, Jared Brenner, Kevin DeBré,  Michael Shaff,  and David Stoops.

To read the full press release for this transaction, click here.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles client Mythical Entertainment has acquired Youtube comedy channel, Smosh, bringing together two long-running Youtube channels. Through the deal, Mythical has expanded its business to over 70 million subscribers and 250 million monthly views across 14 YouTube channels. Ron Bender's firm assisted alongside Stubbs Alderton in the deal.

To read the full article on Variety visit here.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles attorneys representing Mythical Entertainment in this deal were Greg Akselrud and Kelly Laffey. 

About Mythical Entertainment
Mythical is an entertainment company, lifestyle brand, and creative collective made up of passionate people brought together by their love of comedy, camaraderie, and the do-it-yourself, direct-to-fan approach to content. Its thousands of popular videos have been viewed over 5 billion times across the Internet. Mythical was founded by the comedic duo and life-long best friends Rhett & Link, who lead the company in every endeavor.

For more information about our Internet, Digital Media & Entertainment practice area contact Greg Akselrud at 

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles client Malauzai,  a provider of mobile and Internet banking solutions for community financial institutions, has been acquired by Finastra, a fintech company that builds and deploys next-generation technology on an open software architecture the company developed and a cloud system.

To read the full press release visit here.

Stubbs Alderton attorney John McIlvery has represented Malauzai since its inception through acquisition, demonstrating how SA&M creates and builds relationships with its clients throughout their evolutionary path.  Other attorneys participating in the transaction included Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey.

About Malauzai Software
Malauzai was incorporated in 2010 in response to the growing demand for a technology company that could provide innovative mobile solutions for community financial organizations. As a cool company in a cool town with a focus primarily on community financial institutions, Malauzai provides consumer and business digital banking that enhance the customer experience for mobile and Internet banking, ultimately resulting in increased value for financial institutions.

For more information about the Mergers & Acquisitions practice, contact John McIlvery at  or Kelly Laffey at .

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12, 2017 (NEWSWIRE) – Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP announced today that it represented Platinum Equity in its sale of Keen Transport to Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics ASA (WWL).  Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 

Keen Transport is a national provider of heavy-haul logistics and transportation services for the construction, mining and agriculture equipment markets. WWL, based in Oslo, Norway, is a global logistics operator serving the manufacturing industry with a special focus on vehicles, mining and construction equipment, and machinery. Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with $13 billion of assets under management and a portfolio of approximately 30 operating companies that serve customers around the world. The firm is currently investing from Platinum Equity Capital Partners IV, a $6.5 billion global buyout fund.  

To view the full press release, click here. 

 ABOUT STUBBS ALDERTON & MARKILES, LLP

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a business law firm with robust corporate, public securities, mergers and acquisitions, entertainment, intellectual property, brand protection and business litigation practice groups focusing on the representation of, among others, venture-backed emerging growth companies, middle-market public companies, large technology companies, entertainment, and digital media companies, investors, venture capital funds, investment bankers and underwriters. Stubbs Alderton’s clients represent the full spectrum of Southern California business with a concentration in the technology, entertainment, videogame, apparel, and medical device sectors. Our mission is to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business perspective. These principles are the hallmarks of our Firm.

 For more information about the Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, contact Scott Galer at

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Sherman Oaks, CA - November 1, 2012 -Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP announced that it advised IRIS International, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRIS) in the completion of its acquisition by Danaher Corporation.  IRIS, a leading manufacturer of automated in-vitro diagnostics systems and consumables, and a provider of high value personalized medicine solutions was acquired by Danaher at a purchase price of $19.50 per share.  Upon completion of the merger, IRIS has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Danaher.

The Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP team advising IRIS included John McIlvery, Partner and Chair of the Public Securities Practice,  Jonathan Friedman, and Sean Greaney.

To view the full press release, click here.

About Stubbs Alderton & Markiles
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a business law firm with robust corporate, public securities, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property practice groups focusing on the representation of venture backed emerging growth companies, middle market public companies, large technology companies, entertainment and digital media companies, investors, venture capital funds, investment bankers and underwriters. The firm’s clients represent the full spectrum of Southern California business with a concentration in the technology, entertainment, videogame, apparel and medical device sectors. Our mission is to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business perspective. These principles are the hallmarks of our Firm.

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Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP client National Coal Corporation announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Ranger Energy Investment, LLC.  To view the press release regarding this transaction, click here.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is representing its client, Sigue Corporation in the acquisition of Coinstar Inc.'s money transfer business.  Coinstar has signed a definitive agreement to sell its money transfer business to Sigue Corporation for the expected purchase price of $41.5 million, subject to a post-closing net working capital adjustment.  The closing is expected next year.  To view the press release regarding the transaction, click here.