Fenwick Represents Databricks in Pending Acquisition of Tabular

Fenwick is representing Databricks, a data and AI company, in its pending acquisition of Tabular, a cloud-native data platform from the original creators of Apache Iceberg. Together, Databricks and Tabular will make open data lakehouse formats Delta Lake and Iceberg interoperable.

Databricks and Tabular will combine their vision and expertise to simplify compatibility among lakehouse formats, and will strengthen Databricks’ Delta Lake UniForm, an open standard for interoperable table formats that all data platforms can read and write without proprietary restrictions. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions. More information can be obtained from Databricks’ announcement.

The Fenwick transaction team includes corporate partners David Bell, Michael Brown, Ethan Skerry, Victoria Lupu and Ari Haber and associates Riddhi Adhikari, Brandon Ho, Ty Chung, Susan Lee and Raffi Terteryan; technology transactions partner Joseph Schenck, associate Ellis Liang and advisor Sandra Weustink; executive compensation and employee benefits partners Shawn Lampron and Matt Cantor and associates Jonathan Stephenson, Cynthia Yuan and Elizabeth Fu; antitrust and competition partner Steve Albertson and associate Kaylynn Moss; tax partner Mike Knobler and associate Kris Hatch; employment litigation partner Matthew Damm; and privacy and cybersecurity counsel Ana Razmazma and associate Mudasar Khan.