Dave focuses his practice on advising technology companies in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnering transactions and spin-offs. His practice also includes startup and public company issues, venture capital financings, public offerings and licensing matters.
From December 2011 to April 2012, Dave served as interim general counsel of Hewlett-Packard. Upon his return to Fenwick, Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer of HP, publicly commented: “I want to thank David Healy for all of his efforts on behalf of HP… David provided strong leadership during a challenging period of transition at HP. We’re all grateful for his contributions.”
Dave has handled many M&A, divestiture and strategic investment deals for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and many strategic investments for Siemens’ next47 venture fund. Dave has had primary responsibility for business transactions ranging from $20 million to over $3 billion.
Dave has been a regular speaker on merger, joint venture, strategic partnering, technology, valuation and startup issues and has served as acting general counsel to Cadence Design Systems. He has co-chaired the Daily Journal Western M&A and PE Forum for a number of years.
Dave has been recognized by Global M&A Network as one of Americas Top 50 M&A Lawyers. He has also been selected as a Northern California "Super Lawyer " in the area of mergers and acquisitions.
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Representative Experience
- Silver Spring Networks’ $830M sale to Itron
- Spansion’s $4B sale to Cypress Semiconductor
- HP’s acquisition of Vertica Network; the sale of its video collaboration business unit to Polycom; the $300M sale of its TippingPoint network security business to Trend Micro; and the $170M sale of its customer experience software and services assets to OpenText
- HPE’s $650M acquisition of SimpliVity and its acquisition of Cloud Technology Partners
- Exodus’ $2.1B acquisition of Global Crossing’s web hosting business
- Opsware’s $1.6B cash tender offer sale to HP
- Dell’s $2.5B offshore joint development and manufacturing agreement
- VERITAS’ $3.4B acquisition of Seagate’s NSMG business
- eBay’s sale of its Skype communications unit, in a deal valuing Skype at $2.75B
- Rational’s $875M acquisition of Pure Atria
- Publications
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M&A Seminar Series
[Below are links to single sessions only]
- Session Eight: CEO View: Top Ten Summary/Summary of Panelist Interviews/Transcript (Ben Horowitz, co-founder and former President and CEO of Opsware; Dave Orton, former President and CEO of ATI Technologies; Tony Zingale, former CEO and President of Mercury Interactive)
- Session Seven: VC/Chairman/CEO/Founder View (Summary and Transcript) (Glen Antle, Trident CEO & Cadence founder; Mike Child, Managing Director, TA Associates; Don Lucas, VC & Oracle and Cadence Board Member; Jim Solomon, Cadence founder)
- Session Six: Director/Executive/VC View (Summary and Transcript) (Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins; Ned Barnholt, former Agilent CEO; Ray Bingham, partner General Atlantic and former CEO Cadence)
- Session Five: VC/Board Member View (Summary) (Ram Shriram, VC & Google founder; Atiq Raza, former CEO NexGen and CEO RMI; Jim Hogan, VC & former SVP Cadence; Eric Keller, CEO Movaris and former Marimba Board member)
- Session Four: CEO View (Summary) (Rajeev Madhavan, CEO Magma; Rich Wyckoff, former CEO Marimba; John Sanguinetti, former President, Chronologic and Forte Design; Charlie Huang, VC, former CEO CadMOS, VP BD Cadence)
- Session Three: CFO View (Summary) (Greg Walker, CFO Magma, Bill Porter, CFO Cadence; Mark Garrett, CFO Documentum and CFO Adobe)
- Session Two: Business Development Executive's View (Summary) (Mark Bailey, DFJ ePlanet partner, former SVP BD Symantec & Healtheon; Greg Wagenhoffeer, Dir. M&A, Magma; Michel Courtoy, M&A VP Cadence & CEO Certess)
- Session One: Investment Banker View (Summary) (Tim Ng, Deutsche Bank; Mike Kelly, Broadview; Glenn Daniel, Houlihan)
- M&A Development: Deal Process and Protections (Netsmart, Lear and Topps): Lessons On What Not To Do When Selling Your Company, Fenwick & West, September 24, 2007
- M&A Development: Emerging Communications—Court Finds Financially Sophisticated Director Personally Liable for $77 Million (In Re Emerging Communications), Fenwick & West Corporate and Securities Law Update, November 9, 2004
- M&A Development: Omnicare—Court Declares Certain Deal Protection Mechanisms Unenforceable (Omnicare v. NCS Healthcare), Fenwick & West Corporate Securities Law Update, May 16, 2003
- Joint Ventures and Other Growth Alternatives
Representative Clients
- Hewlett-Packard
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Marvell Technology Group
- McKesson
- Opsware
- Silver Spring Networks
Industries
Education & Admissions
J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law
A.B., cum laude, Economics
University of California, Davis
Admitted to practice in California