Jane Ross new Managing Partner Hogan Lovells Silicon Valley Office

Jane Ross new Managing Partner Hogan Lovells Silicon Valley Office

The American-British law firm Hogan Lovells has chosen Jane Ross as its managing partner in Silicon Valley ahead of moving to a new office space in Redwood City.

Ross, a corporate and finance partner takes over from Chris Moore, who was appointed the managing partner last year. He had succeeded Nate Gallon, who became managing partner in 2017 when he joined the firm to boost its Silicon Valley presence.

The leadership shuffle coincides with the firm's long-awaited move from Menlo Park to Redwood City, in a redeveloped building at 855 Main. Last year, it signed an 11-year lease as the anchor tenant on new office space to support its growth in Northern California.

(The location is also likely to house the Silicon Valley team of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer).

Since establishing a presence in Silicon Valley back in 2008, Hogan Lovells' team has handled matters including Oracle's pending $28.3bn acquisition of digital healthcare systems provider Cerner and Adobe's purchase of B2B cloud platform Marketo in 2018 for $4.75bn.

Meanwhile, Ross's clients' list includes Silicon Valley heavyweights like Meta, PayPal, and Intel.

She spent five years at Weil Gotshal & Manges before joining Hogan Lovells in 2017. Earlier she worked at Dewey LeBoeuf before it dissolved in 2012 and spent nine years as a partner at Cooley between 2000 and 2009.

Richard Lorenzo, the regional managing partner for the Americas at Hogan Lovell, said, "Ross has been a key part of the growth of the Silicon Valley office over the past five years. I look forward to working with her in her new role."

The firm's US and EMEA activity accounted for 47 percent of its total billings for the last financial year. It achieved record results in 2021 with revenue jumping up by 12.9 percent to $2.6bn and profit per equity partner by 25.9 percent to hit $2.49m.