Ellen E. Hunter

Ellen Hunter is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in San Francisco. She advises clients on a wide range of corporate and securities matters — including mergers and acquisitions involving public and private entities, capital markets transactions, asset acquisitions and dispositions, and corporate governance. She has worked with financial and strategic buyers and sellers across the technology, healthcare, life sciences, media, and food and beverage industries.

Ellen regularly represents companies in cross-border M&A transactions, and counsels public companies on the full range of securities law matters — SEC periodic reporting, proxy disclosures, stock-exchange requirements, and corporate governance.

• Roche in the sale of its Genentech biologics manufacturing facility to Lonza$1.2B
• Splunk in its acquisition of cloud-monitoring company SignalFx$1.05B
• Palo Alto Networks in its acquisition of Demisto$560M
• Palo Alto Networks in its acquisition of Twistlock$410M
• Palo Alto Networks in its acquisitions of PureSec and Aporeto—
• A publicly traded packaged-foods company in its sale$1.5B
• A full-service restaurant & packaged-foods company in the sale of its restaurant division to a private equity firm$565M
• A dental & vision benefits company in its sale to a public disability insurer$127M

A Louisville native, Ellen has made San Francisco home for more than a decade. She works deep into the grind by choice — and keeps a steady supply of Tru Fru frozen raspberries within arm's reach while she does.