Fenwick & West represented Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking, in its acquisition of Metacloud, Inc., a privately held company which deploys and operates private clouds for global organizations with a unique OpenStack-as-a-Service model that delivers and remotely operates production-ready private clouds in a customer’s data center. More information is available through the announcement on Cisco’s website.
The Fenwick transaction team included corporate attorneys Doug Cogen, Lynda Twomey, Jordan Koss, Allison Cooper and Esther Chan; technology transactions attorneys Stephen Gillespie, Christopher Joslyn, Sophia Chen and Ethan Lee; executive compensation and employee benefits attorney Gerald Audant; tax attorneys Ronald Schrotenboer and Ora Grinberg, and trademark attorneys Mark Jansen and Kelly Yang.