Jonathan Ashtor is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Artificial Intelligence Group and a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions Group. His practice focuses on technology M&A transactions, IP licensing, technology development and collaboration agreements, AI services and hosting agreements and technology dispute resolution and advisory work. His experience has included major, complex and multi-jurisdictional M&A, including public company mergers, private equity and venture-backed transactions, spinoffs and joint ventures. He advises clients across a variety of industry sectors, including computer & semiconductor technologies, life sciences & biotech, emerging technologies, e-commerce & media, industrial chemicals and manufacturing, among others.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global IP Lawyers | 2026 | M&A, Tech Transactions, IP |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | IP & Technology Transactions |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2025 | IP & Technology Transactions |
| The Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global IP Lawyers | 2025 | M&A, Tech Transactions, IP |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2024 | IP & Technology Transactions |
Some recent transactions include:
Emerging Technologies
- Amazon in its $10.8 billion acquisition of Globalstar
- FIFA in its sponsorship deal and technical partnership with blockchain technology innovator Algorand, including the creation of an NFT platform
- IBM in its acquisition of:
- Confluent, for an enterprise value of $11 billion
- Datastax
- Nebius Group in its:
- approximately $643 million acquisition of Eigen AI
- agreement to to license AI inference and compute orchestration technology from Clarifai and to hire Clarifai’s core engineering and research team, including Clarifai’s founder and CEO
- Qualcomm in its $4.5 billion topping bid for Veoneer. As part of the transaction, Veoneer terminated its prior agreement with Magna International
Computer & Semiconductor Technologies
- DigitalBridge Group in its investment in OpticalTel and subsequent rebrand to Fibernow
- IBM:
- Red Hat in its acquisition of Neural Magic
- in its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp
- in its $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio
- in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, creating the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider
- Mitel Networks in its $530 million acquisition of ShoreTel, involving the acquisition of a significant international IP portfolio, as well as advising on IP issues relating to outbound affiliate licenses and historical IP disputes; and in Mitel’s approximately $2 billion acquisition by an investor group led by affiliates of Searchlight Capital Partners
- Qualcomm in its:
- acquisition of Alphawave Semi, with an enterprise value of approximately $2.4 billion
- proposed acquisition of NXP Semiconductors N.V. for approximately $47 billion
- ZT Systems in its $4.9 billion sale to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Life Sciences & Biotech
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Portola Pharmaceuticals
- Catalent in the sale of its Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) Sterile Contract Development and Manufacturing Business to funds advised by SK Capital Partners
- Five Arrows in its majority investment in Blue Mountain
- GSK in its:
- $950 million all-cash acquisition of 35Pharma
- up-to-$50 million acquisition of Elsie Biotechnologies
- Metsera in its $10 billion sale to Pfizer, following a series of competing bids for the company by Pfizer and Novo Nordisk
E-Commerce & Media Technologies
- Adjust in its sale to AppLovin
- Endeavor Streaming in connection with the negotiation and drafting of key technology services agreements with WWE for the operation and support of its WWE Network streaming platform
- Farelogix in its sale to Accelya
- Golden Gate Capital in its:
- acquisition of Securly, from the company’s shareholders
- $3.1 billion sale of Neustar to TransUnion
Other Industries
- Funds managed by affiliates of Berkshire Partners in their acquisition of FoodChain ID from Paine Schwartz Partners
- General Electric in its:
- separation into three distinct companies focusing on health care, energy and aviation: GE Healthcare, GE Vernova and GE Aerospace
- combination of its jet leasing unit, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), with Dublin-based AerCap Holdings NV in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at more than $30 billion
- Keurig Dr Pepper in its €15.7 billion ($18.4 billion) acquisition of JDE Peet’s and in its planned separation into two independent, U.S.-listed publicly traded companies—a beverage company and a coffee company
- Lone View Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in CargoSprint
- QXO in its successful $11 billion unsolicited bid to acquire Beacon Roofing Supply