Freshfields Advises CrowdStrike on its Acquisition of SGNL

Global law firm Freshfields is advising CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) on its acquisition of SGNL, a leader in Continuous Identity. This acquisition will accelerate CrowdStrike’s leadership in Next-Gen Identity Security, enabling access for human, non-human (NHI), and AI identities to be continuously granted and revoked based on real-time risk. Learn more about this transaction here.

The Freshfields team is led by partners Denny Kwon and Zheng (Jonathan) Zhou and includes counsel Stella Lee and associates Richard Bae Gong, Elen Shlyakhanova, Eli Merkadeau, and Essey Abebe. Partner Sarah Ghulamhussain, Counsel Jordan Salzman and associate Meilun Chen advised on executive compensation and employee benefits matters; partner Joe Soltis and associate Hannah Golden advised on tax matters; partner Mena Kaplan, counsel Marissa Yu and associate Olivia Luongo advised on intellectual property matters; partner Brock Dahl, senior associate Christine Chong and associate Ian Allen advised on data privacy and security matters; partners Meghan Rissmiller and Kevin Yingling, special counsel Charles Ramsey, associate Kaylynn Moss advised on antitrust & FDI matters; partner Calise Cheng advised on securities law matters; and partner Nabeel Yousef and associate Keian Razipour advised on international trade and sanctions matters.