Fenwick & West represented Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND), the maker of Kettle Brand® potato chips, Pop Secret® popcorn, Emerald® snack nuts and Diamond of California® culinary nuts, in its recently announced definitive agreement to be acquired by Snyder’s-Lance, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNCE) for approximately $1.9 billion.
The Fenwick transaction team, led by M&A partner Doug Cogen, included corporate attorneys Horace Nash, David Michaels, Kim Kee, Scott Behar, Julia Forbess, Christine Chen, Allison Cooper, Chris Gorman and Victoria Wong; executive compensation and employee benefits attorneys Scott Spector, Marshall Mort and Mona Clee; technology transactions attorneys Ralph Pais, Joseph Schenck, Michael Riskin; antitrust attorney Mark Ostrau and tax attorneys William Skinner and Ora Grinberg.