Freshfields is advising Capella Space Corp., a signals platform leader for top-secret government and commercial applications, on its sale to IonQ, Inc., a leading quantum computing and networking company.

More information about the transaction can be found here.

The Freshfields team was led by corporate/M&A partners Damien Zoubek, Sanjay Murti and Scott Blumenkranz, and includes corporate/M&A associates Victor Ma, Evan Yoo, Kimberly Wang, Gabriela Roca Fernandez, Sahara Baker and Eric Mason. Partners Nicole Foster and Sarah Ghulamhussain and senior associate Jeffrey Anand advised on employee compensation and benefits matters; partner Mena Kaplan, senior associate Daniel Spencer and associate Elana Confino-Pinzon advised on intellectual property matters; counsel Jeremiah Nelson and associates Casey Hagen and Kate Koudouna advised on real estate matters; partner Steven Matays, counsel Jay Cosel and law clerk Dominik Luczak advised on tax matters; partner Kyle Lakin and associates Jordan Phelan and Nora McDonnell advised on finance matters; partner Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum, counsel Elizabeth Suarez and associate Sam Bellet advised on antitrust and competition matters; partners Christine Lyon and Brock Dahl and senior associate Christine Chong advised on data privacy and security matters and partner Stephanie Brown-Cripps and associate Ian Allen advised on sanctions matters.