Fenwick Represents Cisco in its $610 Million Acquisition of Viptela

Fenwick & West represented Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), in its acquisition of Viptela Inc., a privately held software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) company. Cisco will acquire Viptela for $610 million in cash and assumed equity awards. More information is available through the announcement on Cisco’s website.

The Fenwick transaction team included corporate lawyers Doug Cogen, Lynda Twomey and Maureen Montgomery; executive compensation and employee benefits lawyers Gerald Audant, Liza Morgan, Nicholas Frey, Laura McIntyre and Elizabeth Chang; technology transactions lawyers Stephen Gillespie, Jonathan Millard, Chris Joslyn, Justin Baumli and Samira Hariramasamy; antitrust lawyer Mark Ostrau; intellectual property lawyer Emily Bullis; and tax lawyers Andrew Kim and Ora Grinberg.