Representative Experience

Transactions

• Multiple acquisitions for Cisco Systems, including its $4.5B acquisition of Acacia Communications, its $2.35B acquisition of Duo Security, its $1.9B acquisition of BroadSoft, its $1.2B acquisition of Meraki, its $452.5M acquisition of Lancope, its $320M acquisition of Leaba Semiconductor (Israel) and its acquisitions of Cognitive Security (Czech Republic), Memoir Systems, Embrane, Piston Cloud, Accompany, Exablaze (Australia), Fluidmesh Networks (Italy), Modcam (Sweden), Portshift (Israel), Banzai Cloud (Hungary), Dashbase, Slido (Slovakia), Sedona Systems (Israel), Socio Labs, Kenna Security, Epsagon (Israel), replex (Germany), Opsani, Valtix, Lightspin (Israel), Smartlook (Czech Republic), Accedian (Canada), SamKnows (UK), Oort, Code BGP, Working Group Two, Isovalent and Robust Intelligence
  
• Multiple acquisitions for Amazon.com, including its acquisitions of Souq (UAE), Blink, Sqrrl, CloudEndure (Israel), Eero, Health Navigator, Zoox, Wondery, Art19 and Cloostermans (Belgium) and its license/hire transaction with Covariant
• Multiple acquisitions for Meta, including its $2B acquisition of Oculus VR and its acquisitions of LiveRail, Little Eye Software (India), Pryte (Finland), Carbon Design, TheFind and PlayGiga (Spain)
• Multiple acquisitions for Etsy, including its $1.6B acquisition of Depop (UK), its $275M acquisition of Reverb and its $217M acquisition of Elo7 (Brazil)
• Multiple acquisitions for Stripe, including its acquisitions of Paystack (Nigeria), Recko (India), TaxJar and Lemon Squeezy
• Multiple acquisitions for Block, including its acquisitions of Stitch Labs, Credit Karma Tax, Crew and Hifi
• Multiple acquisitions for Gitlab, including its acquisitions of Peach Tech, Fuzzit (Israel), Opstrace and Oxeye (Israel)
• 58.com’s (China) $8.7B going-private transaction with a private equity sponsor-backed consortium (counsel to special committee)
• King Digital Entertainment’s (Ireland) $5.9B acquisition by Activision Blizzard and its acquisition of Z2Live
• Shanghai Giant Network Technology’s (China) $4.4B acquisition of Playtika from Caesars Interactive Entertainment
• Giant Interactive Group’s (China) $3B going-private transaction with a private equity sponsor-backed consortium (counsel to special committee)
• Imperva’s $2.1B acquisition by Thoma Bravo
• Spreadtrum Communications’ (China) $1.8B acquisition by Tsinghua Unigroup
• Zhaopin's (China) $1B going-private transaction with a private equity sponsor-backed consortium (counsel to special committee)
• eHi Car Services’ (China) $930M going-private transaction with a private equity sponsor-backed consortium (counsel to special committee)
  
• Accel Entertainment in its business combination with TPG Pace Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), valuing Accel at $884M
• Twilio’s $850M acquisition of Zipwhip and sale of IoT business to KORE
• Appirio’s $500M acquisition by Wipro (India)
• Keynote Systems’ $395M acquisition by Thoma Bravo
• Actuate’s $330M acquisition by Open Text
• Farfetch’s (UK) $250M acquisition of Stadium Goods
• Solta Medical’s $250M acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
• Lending Club’s $140M acquisition of Springstone Financial
• American Express’s acquisitions of InAuth and BodesWell
• Appirio’s acquisition of TopCoder
• The Arena Group’s acquisitions of Men’s Journal and Fexy Studios
• Calm’s acquisition of Ripple Health
• Castlight Health’s acquisition of Jiff
• Chubbies Shorts’ acquisition by Solo Brands
• Clari's acquisition of Groove Labs
• DoorDash's acquisition of Bbot
• Linden Research’s acquisition by an investment group
• Marin Software’s divestiture of its Perfect Audience business to SharpSpring
• Moonbug’s acquisition of Little Angel assets from Valnet
• Nexon’s acquisitions of Big Huge Games and Embark Studios
• Scopely’s acquisition of FoxNext Games from The Walt Disney Company and divestiture of Cold Iron Studios to Daybreak Games
• Shotgun Software's and Tweak Software’s acquisitions by Autodesk
• Shutterfly’s acquisitions of MyPublisher and BorrowLenses
• Squarespace’s acquisition of Acuity Scheduling
• Wonder Dynamics’ acquisition by Autodesk

Defense Engagements

• Shutterfly in contested election for board seats initiated by Marathon Partners
• Green Dot in contested election for board seats initiated by Harvest Capital
• Contested squeeze-out of public minority shareholders of Alcon by Novartis

Publications

• “Akorn v. Fresenius: Important Practical Lessons from First-Ever Material Adverse Effect,” Fenwick & West, October 2018 (co-author)
• “Wikimmunity: Fitting the Communications Decency Act to Wikipedia”, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Fall 2006