Since 2003, we have represented public and private clients in the planning, negotiating and executing of domestic and foreign M&A transactions. We represent and advise both buyers and sellers in mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases and tender offers.
Our clients find us to be an attractive alternative to our large firm competitors when they need smart legal advice and efficient execution on their most important smaller transactions.
Firm Representative Transactions
- Represent leading Silicon Valley search company in multiple technology acquisitions for consideration up to $20 million
- Represent leading Silicon Valley technology company in multiple technology acquisitions for consideration up to $10 million
- Vivid Logic in its approximate $23 million acquisition by SeaChange International, Inc.
- support.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRT) in its $8.5 million cash purchase of Xeriton Corporation and other transactions
- Seller of a California-based high-tech manufacturing business in its purchase for $20 million by a Japanese conglomerate
- Digital Music Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ORCD) in the $7 million cash and stock merger acquisition of Digital Rights Agency, LLC
- Advantage Performance Group and The Real Learning Company in the sale of assets for $23 million cash and stock to BTS Group AB (Stockholm: BTSB)
- Private-equity buyer in the acquisition of Ovation, Inc. for $6.5 million cash
- Digital Music Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ORCD) in its merger with Digital Musicworks International, Inc. and asset purchase from Rio Bravo Entertainment LLC (dba Psychobaby) for stock concurrent with its initial public offering
- SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRF) on certain matters in its $136 million stock merger acquisition by CSR plc (LSE: CSR)
Our Experience and Expertise
Our partners have collectively represented hundreds of companies in planning, negotiating and executing mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and asset sales and purchases having an aggregate value well in the billions of dollars. Representative M&A clients include public companies such as Google Inc., Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, LSI Logic Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, and Tibco Software Inc., and private companies such as Solar Semiconductor, Ltd., E2open LLC, Ovation LLC, Compensation Technologies LLC, Xoriant Corporation, Exodus Capital, The Concert Network Inc., and Solar Depot, Inc.