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Practice Group Leaders:
Fenwick & West is one of the premier technology M&A practices in the nation, recently ranked by MergerMarket as the #1 U.S. law firm for technology sector M&A.
Across all industries, Fenwick & West consistently ranks among the top M&A firms in the United States. Recent rankings include:
- Ranked by Bloomberg as one of the top 10 M&A Advisors in the U.S for First Half 2010. Also ranked by Bloomberg as one of the top 20 Global M&A Advisors for Q1 2010.
- Ranked by Thomson Reuters as one of the Top 10 most active U.S. M&A legal advisors across all industries based on number of deals involving U.S. target companies for First Half 2010
- Ranked by MergerMarket as one of the top 5 West Coast M&A legal advisors for First Half 2010
In recent years, the firm has completed more than $200 billion worth of transactions, including significant acquisition programs for leading serial acquirers:
- Counsel for Cisco Systems in its $6.9B acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, its $3.2B tender offer of WebEx Communications, its $2.9B acquisition of Starent Networks, and more than 65 other transactions for Cisco Systems
- Counsel in one of the largest Internet deal ever—VeriSign's $21B acquisition of Network Solutions—and more than 25 other VeriSign acquisitions
- Counsel in one of the largest software mergers ever—Symantec's $13.5B acquisition of VERITAS—and more than 25 other Symantec acquisitions
- Counsel to Data Domain in the bidding war between NetApp and EMC, leading to Data Domain's $2.4B acquisition by EMC
- Counsel to Diamonds Foods in its $615M acquisition of Kettle Foods and its $190M acquisition of the Pop Secret popcorn business from General Mills
- Counsel in many of the most important strategic mergers of software companies, including: Macromedia's $3.4B merger with Adobe Systems, VERITAS' $3.4B acquisition of Seagate Software, Opsware's $1.6B acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, MySQL's $1B acquisition by Sun Microsystems, and Intuit's $1.35B acquisition of Digital Insight
- Counsel for some of the largest life sciences industry mergers in recent years— including Agilent Technologies’ $1.5B acquisition of Varian, Ocular Sciences’ $1.2B acquisition by The Cooper Companies and Connetics’ $930M acquisition by Stiefel Laboratories
Our M&A group provides customized transaction services to meet each client's unique business needs, communications preferences and technology infrastructure requirements.
We have an extensive group of experienced attorneys available for deals of any size and complexity. Our team includes attorneys specializing in technology transactions, patents and IP litigation. In addition, our attorneys have a broad range of expertise in domestic and international tax issues.
Related services include Corporate, Intellectual Property, Tax and Technology Transactions.
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