Fenwick & West represented DataStax, Inc., the company that delivers Apache Cassandra to the enterprise, in its recently announced acquisition of Aurelius, LLC, the innovators behind the open-source graph database, Titan. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition will combine DataStax’s engineering excellence in distributed database technology with Aurelius’ graph expertise, creating the ability to build a tightly integrated graph database that will easily scale both horizontally and vertically as business demands and use cases increase. More information about DataStax’s acquisition of Aurelius can be obtained from the company press release.
The Fenwick transaction team included corporate attorneys Matt Quilter, Derek Huoth and Mack Healy; executive compensation and employee benefits attorneys Blake Martell and Grace Chen; technology transactions attorneys Ralph Pais and Michael Riskin and tax attorney Idan Netser.