Fenwick & West LLP represented ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARST) in its initial public offering. ArcSight, based in Cupertino, CA, is a leading provider of security and compliance management solutions. The offering, which is the only high technology IPO completed thus far in 2008, raised approximately $62 million for ArcSight and selling stockholders, which collectively sold 6,861,919 shares of ArcSight common stock in the offering. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated acted as sole book-running manager. Lehman Brothers Inc. acted as joint-lead manager. Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC and RBC Capital Markets Corporation acted as co-managers.
More information can be obtained from the ArcSight Web site.
The Fenwick & West transaction team included corporate attorneys David Bell, Dan Winnike, Yoonie Chang, Michael Hopp, Michael Brown and Aaron Hou; executive compensation and employee benefits attorneys Blake Martell and Nicholas Frey; employment practices attorney Dan McCoy; securities litigation attorney Jay Pomerantz; and tax attorney Tim Fitzgibbon.
Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. The firm has been ranked by American Lawyer Media and Global Securities as one of the top 10 IPO counsel in the United States and was recently ranked by Corporate Board Member as one of the top 5 corporate law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area for publicly traded companies.