Fenwick is acting as lead transaction counsel to Wiz, a leading cloud security platform designed to help businesses secure their infrastructure at scale, in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google. This transaction marks the highest price ever paid for a private technology company.
The acquisition of Wiz will help Google Cloud vastly improve how security is designed, operated and automated in the future. More information can be found in Google’s news announcement. Fenwick has advised Wiz on multiple transactions, including its $1 billion financing in May 2024. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
The Fenwick transaction team was led by Michael Brown, Doug Cogen, Stephen Fisher and Zach Portnoy and included corporate associates Samuel Fleuter, Sawyer Li, James Clarkin-Breslin, Zoe Zhang, Brandon Ho, John Clancy, Anja Kong, Liz Malmen, Itka Safir, Richard Figelman and Jing Liu; technology transactions partner Joseph Schenck, associates Julia Arruda, Jefferson Lin, Andrea Louie, Monica Kim, Taylor Muentener, Rob Ferrari, Sam Dodson, Lily Rose Henein and Nick Zakari, and Sandra Weustink; executive compensation and employee benefits partners Shawn Lampron and Marshall Mort and associates Jonathan Stephenson and Elizabeth Fu; tax partners Adam Halpern and Mike Knobler and associate Einav Axler; privacy and cybersecurity partner Ana Razmazma and associates Alyona Eidinger and Kayla Tanaka; antitrust partner Tom Ensign and associate Brooklynn Moore; and trade and national security partner Robert Slack.