Biography
Amy Montoya is an associate in Weil’s Technology & IP Transactions practice and is based in Silicon Valley. Amy participates in advising Firm clients in a variety of matters relating to the licensing, acquisition, development, sale, use and commercial exploitation of intellectual property and technology. She also participates in advising clients regarding privacy and data security issues in the context of corporate transactions.
Amy has been part of the teams advising on the technology and intellectual property aspects, as well as on the data privacy and cybersecurity aspects of the following matters:
- Advent International in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Maxar Technologies
- Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in New Tradition Media
- Goldman Sachs in its $325 million investment in iSpot.tv and its sale of Restaurant Technologies
- Main Event Entertainment, Inc. (a subsidiary of Ardent Leisure Group Limited in which RedBird Capital is a minority investor) in its $835 million sale to Dave & Buster’s, Inc.
- Nexa Equity in its investment in, and secondary purchase of shares of, HomeTown Ticketing, Inc.
- PSG in its acquisition of DoseSpot
- Sculptor Capital Management Inc. in its pending sale to Rithm Capital Corp.
- Sumeru Equity Partners in its investment in iProov Ltd.
- TPG in its acquisition of a majority stake in Morrow Sodali
- Trive Capital and its portfolio company Earthlink in its acquisition of One Ring Networks, Inc.
- WellSpring Consumer Healthcare (a portfolio company of Avista Capital Partners) in a carve-out transaction involving the acquisition of skin care brands A+D, Solarcaine, Cortate and Complex 15 from Bayer AG
Amy joined Weil as a summer associate in 2020.
Amy received her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she served as Forum Editor of the University of San Francisco Law Review, and her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.