Representative Experience

Sell-Side M&A Transactions

• Smartsheet in its $8.4B acquisition by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners
• Loxo Oncology in its $8B acquisition by Eli Lilly
• King Digital in its $5.9B acquisition by Activision Blizzard
• Chinook in its $3.5B acquisition by Novartis
• Morphic in its $3.2B acquisition by Eli Lilly
• Audentes Therapeutics in its $3B acquisition by Astellas Pharma
• Giant Interactive Group in its $3B going-private acquisition by a private-equity backed consortium
• Clif Bar & Company in its $2.9B acquisition by Mondelez
• Shutterfly in its $2.7B acquisition by Apollo Global Management
• Callidus Software in its $2.4B acquisition by SAP
• DICE Therapeutics in its $2.4B acquisition by Eli Lilly
• Glu Mobile in its $2.4B acquisition by Electronic Arts
• Spreadtrum Communications in its $1.78B acquisition by Tsinghua Unigroup
• Redfin in its pending $1.75B acquisition by Rocket Companies
• Infoblox in its $1.6B acquisition by Vista Equity Partners
• Aliada Therapeutics in its $1.4B acquisition by AbbVie
• Cray in its $1.3B acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• UserTesting in its $1.3B acquisition by Thoma Bravo and Sunstone Partners
• Model N in its $1.25B acquisition by Vista Equity Partners
• Amunix in its $1.2B acquisition by Sanofi
• Ocular Sciences in its $1.2B acquisition by The Cooper Companies
• Dermira in its $1.1B acquisition by Eli Lilly
• SomaLogic in its $1B merger with Standard BioTools
• eHi Car Services (China) in its $930M going-private acquisition by a sponsor-backed consortium (counsel to special committee)
• Plangrid in its $875M acquisition by Autodesk
• Interwoven in its $775M acquisition by Autonomy
• Escient Pharmaceuticals in its $750M acquisition by Incyte
• Connetics in its $640M acquisition by Steifel Laboratories
• Silicon Image in its $600M acquisition by Lattice Semiconductor
• Corium in its $504M acquisition by Gurnet Point Capital
• Adesto in its $500M acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor
• ShoreTel in its $430M acquisition by Mitel
• Zerto in its $374M acquisition by HPE
• Peplin in its $287M acquisition by LEO Pharma
• Dragonplay in its $100M acquisition by Bally Technologies
• Kyndi in its acquisition by Qlik
• Roofstock in its equity commitment to CasaGo in strategic merger with Vasaca
• Velo3D in its combination agreement with JAWS Spitfire SPAC
• Grapeshot in its acquisition by Oracle
• LakePharma in its acquisition by Curia
• RAE Systems in its going-private acquisition by Vector Capital
• Envoy Technologies in its acquisition by Blink Mobility
• Jam City it its spin-off of Plai Labs
• Kareo in its merger with PatientPop to form Tebra
• Doctor on Demand in its merger with Grand Rounds
• Special Committee of 58.com Board of Directors in going-private transaction

Buy-Side M&A Transactions

• Cloudera in its $5.2B merger of equals with Hortonworks
• Symantec in its $4.65B acquisition of Blue Coat Systems, its $2.3B acquisition of LifeLock and in numerous other related M&A and financing transactions
• Shanghai Giant Network Technology and consortium of investors in its $4.4B acquisition of Caesars Interactive Entertainment's Playtika
• Flextronics International in its $2.4B acquisition of Dii Group, its $725M acquisition of Nortel Networks and dozens of other acquisitions for Flextronics
• Singapore Telecommunications in its $810M acquisition of Trustwave and $321M acquisition of Amobee
• Electronic Arts in its $680M acquisition of JAMDAT Mobile, and a number of other acquisitions for EA
• Wonder Group in its $650M acquisition of Grubhub and its $103M acquisition of Blue Apron
• Neoleukin Therapeutics in its acquisition of Neurogene Inc.
• Nexon in its acquisition of Pixelberry Studios and in a number of investment transactions
• Model N in its acquisition of Revitas
• Vast in its acquisition of Launcher
• Adesto in its acquisition of Echelon
• Shutterfly in its acquisition of MyPublisher and BorrowLenses
• KalVista Pharmaceuticals in its majority share purchase agreement of Carbylan
• Fortinet in its acquisitions of Lacework, Zonefox and Bradford Networks
• FanDuel in its acquisition of AlphaDraft and numberFire
• Dexcom in its acquisition of TypeZero Technologies
• Uptake in its acquisition of Asset Performance Technologies

David has played a lead role in a number of capital markets and debt financing transactions.

Capital Markets and Debt Financing Transactions

• 144A convertible and high yield debt offerings by a number of issuers, including Adesto, Alteryx, Amyris, Bauzun, Bill.com, Cepheid, Chegg, Cloudfare, Coinbase, Concur, Corium, Dermira, Dexcom, DocuSign, Flextronics, Fortinet, GoPro, Impinj, iRhythm, Peloton, Proofpoint, Redfin, ServiceNow, Shockwave Medical, Shutterfly, Snap, Symantec, Uber, Upwork, Vocera, Workday and Ziprecruiter, and representation of initial purchasers in offerings by Impinj and Fluidigm; many of these transactions included equity derivative arrangements
• Cisco Systems in public debt offerings totaling $30.25B
• Public debt offerings for Agilent, Intuit and Symantec
• Syndicated credit facilities for Agilent, Airbnb, Chegg, Cisco Systems, Databricks, Dermira, Dropbox, Diamond Foods, Fitbit, Flextronics, GoPro, Intuit, Jam City, Katerra, LendingClub, Model N, Peloton, Stripe, Symantec, Turn Networks, VeriSign and Workday

David also has significant experience with a wide range of derivative transactions.

Representative Clients

• Intuit
• Symantec