Fenwick & West LLP represented Six Apart Ltd. in the acquisition of its global community web site LiveJournal by SUP, a Russian-based international media company. LiveJournal is managed by Six Apart and is one of the web’s largest online communities, organized around personal journals. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Six Apart, based in San Francisco, CA, is a leading independent blogging software and services company.
The Fenwick & West transaction team included corporate attorneys Mark Stevens, Jeff Vetter and Christian Lymn; technology transactions attorney Michael Egger; and tax attorney Tim Fitzgibbon.
Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. The firm is ranked by MergerMarket as one of the top 5 technology M&A practices in the U.S. and by Legal 500 as one of the top 5 West Coast M&A practices.