Fenwick & West represented Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), a leader in self-service data analytics, in its acquisition of Yhat, Inc., a data science software company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The acquisition will further enhance the Alteryx data analytics platform and build on its strategy to help organizations empower citizen data scientists and trained data scientists to rapidly deploy and manage advanced analytic models. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. More information about Alteryx’s acquisition of Yhat can be obtained from the company press release.
Fenwick also represented Alteryx in its recent acquisition of Semanta s.r.o., a company that specializes in meta data management and governance headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. Alteryx’s launch of AlteryxConnect, a data exploration platform that empowers users to discover and collaborate on data assets, visualizations, reports and workflows typically siloed across large enterprises, is an outgrowth of the Semanta acquisition. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. More information about AlteryxConnect can be obtained from the company press release.
The Fenwick transaction team included corporate lawyers Michael Brown, Scott Behar, Maureen Montgomery and Isabel da Roza; technology transactions lawyers Jonathan Millard, Michael Riskin and Pinar Bailey; executive compensation and employee benefits attorneys Elizabeth Gartland and Elizabeth Chang; and tax attorneys Adam Halpern and Michael Knobler.