| LYNDA M. TWOMEY |
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Mergers and Acquisitions |
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Venture Capital Financings |
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Counseling Private and Public Companies |
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| Profile |
Ms. Twomey represents private and public companies in the networking, internet, software, semiconductor and computer hardware industries and her practice is primarily focused on startup counseling, venture capital, private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. Twomey advises private companies in matters ranging from startup counseling, equity incentive arrangements, securities law compliance to structuring and negotiation of venture capital financing transactions. Ms. Twomey also represents venture capital firms, private equity funds and corporate investors in their investments in portfolio companies.
In the mergers and acquisitions area, Ms. Twomey has represented buyers and sellers in numerous public and private acquisitions and divestitures, spin-offs and other strategic transactions, including cross-border M&A transactions. She has represented Cisco Systems, Inc. in numerous acquisition transactions, including its $7 billion acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. and its acquisitions of KiSS Technology A/S, NetSolve, Inc. and Protego Networks, Inc. Ms. Twomey recently advised Opsware, Inc. on its $1.6 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, and is currently representing Covad Communications Group in its pending acquisition by Platinum Equity Capital. Ms. Twomey has also represented Flextronics International Ltd in many strategic transactions, including Flextronics' acquisition of Microcell Oy and Peripheral Imaging Corporation, its acquisition of a majority stake in Hughes Software Systems, a division of DirecTV, and the sale of its semiconductor division to AMIS Semiconductor, Inc. Ms. Twomey also advised Ocular Sciences, Inc. in its $650 million merger with The Coopers Companies, Inc. and Handspring, Inc. in its merger with Palm, Inc.
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| Education |
Trinity College, Dublin, LL.B., with honors, 1989
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| Admitted to Practice |
Member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice as a solicitor in Ireland. |
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| Additional Information |
Ms. Twomey recently completed a one-year secondment in London with the corporate group at Allen & Overy LLP, a leading global law firm with whom Fenwick & West has a strategic relationship. While at Allen & Overy, Ms. Twomey gained invaluable experience with complex international transactions, working on numerous cross-border European M&A, private equity transactions and joint ventures including the following representations:
- Investment by a leading investment bank in a 15% ownership interest in the private equity acquisition vehicle for the Formula One car racing sports franchise and subsequent re-organizations of such portfolio company;
- Acquisition by Shroeder Ventures, a US private equity fund, of WILink plc, a UK public company, including advising on the structuring and negotiation of equity interests of, and the related shareholders agreement with, the management stakeholders in the acquisition vehicle;
- Negotiation of a highly complex multimillion dollar debt/equity instrument to be issued to the creditors of a large multinational public company in bankruptcy as partial consideration for the sale of certain businesses of the bankrupt company;
- Investment by a large German bank, as lead investor in a syndicate, in connection with the acquisition of a significant European real estate portfolio, including the structuring of the acquisition vehicle, the shareholder agreement between the syndicate of investors and the management contract between the syndicate and an asset manager;
- $428.3 million acquisition by Liberty Global of Karneval, the largest Czech cable operator, in controlled auction process
- Acquisition by a financial buyer of three digital marketing companies and the listing of the stock of the acquisition vehicle on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange; and
- Advising a syndicate of banks, as lenders to a private equity buyer, in connection with the structuring of and corporate documentation related to the private equity acquisition.
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| Representative Clients |
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Adaptec, Inc. |
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Agilent Technologies, Inc. |
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BroadOn Communications Corp |
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. |
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Cepheid |
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Cisco Systems, Inc. |
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Covad Communications Group, Inc. |
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Flextronics International Ltd. |
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Goodmail Systems, Inc. |
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Ludic Labs, Inc |
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Opsware Inc. |
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Redux, Inc. |
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Scale Venture Partners |
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Solid Information Technology, Ltd. |
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SRI International |
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Symantec Corporation |
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VantagePoint Venture Partners |
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VeriSign, Inc. |
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VERITAS Software Corporation |
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VMware, Inc. |
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