Mikaela Dealissia
Associate in our IP, Tech & Commercial Transactions practice.
Mikaela is a member of our IP, Tech & Commercial Transactions practice and our interdisciplinary Data Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. She provides advice and counseling to clients on IP, technology and data privacy issues arising in their operations and in strategic transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, JVs, commercial and licensing arrangements, collaborations, financings, restructurings and capital markets offerings.
Mikaela has extensive experience structuring, negotiating and drafting complex and bespoke commercial arrangements across a range of industries, including with respect to data use and monetization, outsourcing, manufacturing, supply and distribution, branding and sponsorship. She frequently counsels clients on matters of data privacy law relating to the design and commercialization of products and services, including issues arising in the development and use of generative AI.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Bridgepoint sale of a minority interest in Humanetics
- Allegro MicroSystems $420 million acquisition of Crocus Technology
- Assurant $175 million senior notes offering
- Leidos $750 million notes offering and tender offer
- Cybersecurity and data-privacy disclosure advice to multiple clients
- RAPT Therapeutics $75 million follow-on offering
- Emerson $14 billion sale of Climate Technologies to Blackstone
- Emerson $3 billion sale of InSinkErator business to Whirlpool
- Baker Hughes sale of Nexus Controls to GE Gas Power
- Emerson sale of Therm-O-Disc to One Rock Capital Partners
- Twitter $1 billion senior notes offering
- Sallie Mae acquisition of Nitro College
- Dun & Bradstreet $460 million senior notes offering
- Ancestry.com $250 million senior notes offering
- Paya Holdings warrant exchange offer
- Valens Semiconductor completed $1.1 billion combination with PTK Acquisition
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Education
- magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Staff Editor, New York University Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law
- with honors
Professional history
- Davis Polk since 2017
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York