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Lucas Barta's practice focuses on counseling both early-stage and sophisticated clients in general corporate, technology, and transactional matters, including venture financings, private and public mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate governance. 

Admitted in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Lucas Barta is a Senior Associate in King & Spalding’s Northern Virginia Office. Lucas' practice focuses on advising clients on a broad range of general corporate, technology, and transactional matters, including general corporate governance, negotiating debt and venture financings of small and large scale, private and public mergers and acquisitions, service arrangements, and other sophisticated transactions. Lucas’ practice aims to provide clients with valuable counsel from formation to exit, and each step along the path.  

Lucas has represented the full range of parties across various transactions, including emerging and established companies, bidders, private equity groups, public companies, private investors, investment banks, and financing sources. Lucas has worked on transactions across a number of industries, including, among others, technology, healthcare, government contracts and services, environmental development, and regulated businesses.

"Lucas Barta is a highly responsive and knowledgeable associate who is able to deliver on our corporate legal requirements." - Client quote, Legal 500 2024

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Credentials

J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.A. English & College Scholar, Virginia Tech, Magna Cum Laude

District of Columbia

Virginia

“Lucas Barta is a highly responsive and knowledgeable associate who is able to deliver on our corporate legal requirements.”


Client quote, Legal 500 2024

M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies


Legal 500, 2024-2025

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Recognition

“Lucas Barta is a highly responsive and knowledgeable associate who is able to deliver on our corporate legal requirements.”


Client quote, Legal 500 2024

M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies


Legal 500, 2024-2025

Matters

Advised Dynetics, Inc. in its sale to Leidos for $1.65 billion. Dynetics, Inc. is an American applied science and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama that provides high-technology, mission-critical services and solutions to the U.S. Government. The transaction was publicly announced on December 17, 2019 and consummated on January 31, 2020, and included an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Advised Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Raytheon Company. Blue Canyon Technologies is a vertically integrated spacecraft manufacturer supporting nearly 40 unique missions with over 70 spacecraft. The transaction was publicly announced November 10, 2020 and closed on December 18, 2020.

Advised Fugue, Inc. on its sale to Snyk limited in the first quarter of 2022. Fugue, Inc. offers a Software as a Service product designed to promote increasingly scalable and secure software development. The transaction makes Snyk Limited the market leader in providing security solutions to developers.

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Advised Dynetics, Inc. in its sale to Leidos for $1.65 billion. Dynetics, Inc. is an American applied science and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama that provides high-technology, mission-critical services and solutions to the U.S. Government. The transaction was publicly announced on December 17, 2019 and consummated on January 31, 2020, and included an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Advised Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Raytheon Company. Blue Canyon Technologies is a vertically integrated spacecraft manufacturer supporting nearly 40 unique missions with over 70 spacecraft. The transaction was publicly announced November 10, 2020 and closed on December 18, 2020.

Advised Fugue, Inc. on its sale to Snyk limited in the first quarter of 2022. Fugue, Inc. offers a Software as a Service product designed to promote increasingly scalable and secure software development. The transaction makes Snyk Limited the market leader in providing security solutions to developers.

Advised SA Photonics, Inc. on its sale to CACI International in the fourth quarter of 2021. The transaction included a spin-off of certain lines of business and involved an Employee Stock Ownership plan.

Matters

Advised Dynetics, Inc. in its sale to Leidos for $1.65 billion. Dynetics, Inc. is an American applied science and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama that provides high-technology, mission-critical services and solutions to the U.S. Government. The transaction was publicly announced on December 17, 2019 and consummated on January 31, 2020, and included an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Advised Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Raytheon Company. Blue Canyon Technologies is a vertically integrated spacecraft manufacturer supporting nearly 40 unique missions with over 70 spacecraft. The transaction was publicly announced November 10, 2020 and closed on December 18, 2020.

Advised Fugue, Inc. on its sale to Snyk limited in the first quarter of 2022. Fugue, Inc. offers a Software as a Service product designed to promote increasingly scalable and secure software development. The transaction makes Snyk Limited the market leader in providing security solutions to developers.

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Matters

Advised Dynetics, Inc. in its sale to Leidos for $1.65 billion. Dynetics, Inc. is an American applied science and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama that provides high-technology, mission-critical services and solutions to the U.S. Government. The transaction was publicly announced on December 17, 2019 and consummated on January 31, 2020, and included an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Advised Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Raytheon Company. Blue Canyon Technologies is a vertically integrated spacecraft manufacturer supporting nearly 40 unique missions with over 70 spacecraft. The transaction was publicly announced November 10, 2020 and closed on December 18, 2020.

Advised Fugue, Inc. on its sale to Snyk limited in the first quarter of 2022. Fugue, Inc. offers a Software as a Service product designed to promote increasingly scalable and secure software development. The transaction makes Snyk Limited the market leader in providing security solutions to developers.

Advised SA Photonics, Inc. on its sale to CACI International in the fourth quarter of 2021. The transaction included a spin-off of certain lines of business and involved an Employee Stock Ownership plan.

Credentials

J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.A. English & College Scholar, Virginia Tech, Magna Cum Laude

District of Columbia

Virginia

“Lucas Barta is a highly responsive and knowledgeable associate who is able to deliver on our corporate legal requirements.”


Client quote, Legal 500 2024

M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies


Legal 500, 2024-2025

Close

Recognition

“Lucas Barta is a highly responsive and knowledgeable associate who is able to deliver on our corporate legal requirements.”


Client quote, Legal 500 2024

M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies


Legal 500, 2024-2025