Denny Kwon

Significant Matters

• Google on its acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion.
• ServiceNow on its $7.75 billion acquisition of Armis. 
• NEC on its pending $2.89 billion acquisition of CSG Systems.
• Pharmacyclics on its $21 billion acquisition by AbbVie.
• Astellas on its $3 billion acquisition of Audentes.
• MuleSoft on its $6.5 billion acquisition by Salesforce.
• AppDynamics on its $3.7 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems.
• McAfee on its $7.7 billion acquisition by Intel.
• 3PAR on its original agreement to be acquired by Dell for $1.7 billion acquisition, on the unsolicited acquisition proposals from Hewlett-Packard and on its $2.4 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard.
• LanzaTech on its $1.7 billion de-SPAC transaction.
• Flix on its acquisition of Greyhound Lines from FirstGroup.

Buy-Side Representations in Public Company Transactions

• Keysight Technologies on its $1.5 billion acquisition of Spirent, including the concurrent sale of Spirent’s High Speed Ethernet and Network Security Testing Business to Viavi. 
• Coherent on its $942 million acquisition of ROFIN-SINAR Technologies.
• Microchip Technology on its $939 million acquisition of Standard Microsystems; $394 million acquisition of Supertex and $300 million acquisition of Silicon Storage Technology through a go-shop process and subsequent competitive bidding process versus Cerberus Capital Management.
• Seagate Technology on its $374 million acquisition of Xyratex.

Sell-Side Representations in Public Company Acquisitions

• OmniVision Technologies on its $1.9 billion acquisition by Hua Capital Management, CITIC Capital and GoldStone Investment.
• Astex Pharmaceuticals on its $866 million acquisition by Otsuka Pharmaceutical.
• Isilon Systems on its $2.5 billion acquisition by EMC.

Buy-Side Representations in Private Company Acquisitions

• Alphabet on more than 30 acquisitions, including its $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs; and $555 million acquisition of Dropcam.
• Atlassian on its $610 million acquisition of The Browser Company of New York and its acquisition of Cycle.
• CrowdStrike on its acquisitions of SGNL, Seraphic, Pangea, Onum and Adaptive Shield.
• Instacart on its acquisition of Instaleap.
• Salesforce on nine acquisitions, including its acquisitions of Qualified and Convergence.ai and its $700 million acquisition of Krux.
• ServiceNow on approx. 20 acquisitions, including its acquisitions of Veza, Logik.ai and ElementAI. 
• Numerous other public and private companies on their acquisitions, including BloomReach, E2open, ForeScout Technologies, MINDBODY, MongoDB, Mozilla, Micron Technology, MuleSoft, NETGEAR, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Quotient Technology, Talend, Zscaler, and Zynga.

Sell-Side Representations in Private Company Acquisitions

• Velocloud on its acquisition by VMware.
• Cyence on its $275 million acquisition by Guidewire Software.
• Silego Technology on its acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor for up to $306.4 million.
• Ravello Systems on its acquisition by Oracle.
• hybris on its > $1 billion acquisition by SAP.
• iWatt on its acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor for up to $345 million.
• CoreValve on its acquisition by a healthcare technology company for up to $850 million.