A member of the firm since 2007, Jed has been based in San Francisco since opening the firm’s office there in 2014. He provides counsel to clients in the context of ongoing investor and public relations and special situations including:

Mergers & Acquisitions

He works with clients in both friendly and unsolicited M&A transactions including Archrock in its acquisition of Total Operations; SilverBow Resources in its sale to Crescent Energy; HashiCorp in its sale to IBM; Everbridge in its sale to Thoma Bravo; Juniper Networks in its sale to HPE; Hawaiian Airlines in its sale to Alaska Airlines; Consolidated Communications in its sale to Searchlight and BCI; Inari Medical in its acquisition of LimFlow; Crestwood Equity Partners in its sale to Energy Transfer; Thoma Bravo in its acquisition of Magnet Forensics; Qualtrics in its sale to Silver Lake and CPP; Coupa Software in its sale to Thoma Bravo; Sierra Wireless in its sale to Semtech; Proofpoint in its sale to Thoma Bravo; Citrix in its sale to Vista and Elliott; Jazz Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of GW Pharmaceuticals; Pluralsight in its sale to Vista; Forescout in its sale to Advent; Salesforce in its acquisitions of Tableu, MuleSoft, DemandWare and Slack; ShoreTel in its sale to Mitel; Cabela’s in its sale to Bass Pro Shops; Enbridge in its acquisition of Spectra Energy; Linear Technology in its sale to Analog Devices; Fairchild Semiconductor in its sale to ON Semiconductor; Informatica in its sale to Permira.

IPOs and Spin-offs

Experience includes Affirm, GRAIL, Latch, Lyft, TPG, Warby Parker, Dover (Apergy), Symantec (Veritas), JDS Uniphase (CCOP) and Agilent Technologies (Keysight).

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Notable assignments include Thrasio; GOL; SVB Financial Group; CARD; Riverbed Technology; JCPenney; Frontier Communications; EP Energy; PG&E; CTI Foods; Taco Bueno; Mattress Firm; Southeastern Grocers; Charter Communications; Edison Mission Energy; Energy Partners; Washington Mutual.

Shareholder Activism

Assignments include SilverBow (Kimmeridge); Turtle Beach (Donerail); Semtech (Lion Point); Salesforce (multiple funds); Kirby Corporation (JCP); Mellanox (Starboard); Boingo (Ides Capital); Cabela’s (Elliott); Citrix (Elliott); Shutterfly (Marathon); Informatica (Elliott); Sotheby’s (Third Point / Marcato); IGT (Ader Investment Management); LSB Industries (Starboard / Engine); ValueVision Media (Clinton Group) and Canadian Pacific (Pershing Square).

Jed joined Joele Frank with more than seven years of financial advisory experience in corporate bankruptcy and restructuring. He was previously a vice president at AlixPartners and an analyst at Kroll Zolfo Cooper. Jed received a BA in art history with a minor in philosophy from Bowdoin College. He also serves on the Board of McSweeney’s Literary Arts Fund, a nonprofit publishing company based in San Francisco.