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Informationstechnologie
Im Laufe der letzten 60 Jahre hat sich Cleary Gottlieb zu einer der wenigen großen Kanzleien entwickelt, die weltweit über die notwendigen Kenntnisse und Ressourcen verfügen, um Mandanten aus der IT-Branche eine kompetente und umfassende Rechtsberatung zu bieten, die mit der Schnelllebigkeit dieser Branche Schritt hält. Dabei können wir durch unser Netzwerk von vierzehn Büros auf drei Kontinenten auch die steigende Anzahl grenzüberschreitender Transaktionen reibungslos abwickeln. Unsere Kanzlei berät Mandanten in allen Bereichen der Informationstechnologie (einschließlich Software, Hardware, Internet und webbasierte Anwendungen). Zu unseren Mandanten zählen nicht nur internationale Technologieunternehmen, sondern auch Private-Equity-Fonds und Venture-Capital-Unternehmen, die wir im Rahmen strategischer Anlagen in der IT-Branche vertreten.
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Selected Experience
- Counsel to Hewlett-Packard in its $2.35 billion acquisition of 3PAR Inc., its $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com Corporation, its $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corporation, and previous acquisitions of Ospware, Neoware, Knightsbridge Solutions, and Peregrine Systems.
- Counsel to Google in its acquisitions of AdMob, ITA Software, Admeld and other corporate law matters. The AdMob acquisition was named one of TIME magazine’s “Top Ten Best Business Deals of the Year.”
- Counsel to 3M in its $943 million acquisition of Cogent through a tender offer followed by a second step merger.
- Counsel to Western Digital in the global antitrust aspects of its $4.3 billion acquisition of Hitachi’s hard drive business.
- Counsel to the special committee of the board of directors of Interactive Data in the $3.4 billion leveraged buyout of the company by a private equity consortium.
- Counsel to trade association ECIS and others in the European Commission’s investigations in the Microsoft case relating to abuses of Microsoft's dominant position in PC operating systems, which resulted in the EC obtaining certain concessions from Microsoft.
- Counsel to EMC Corp. on the antitrust aspects of its $2.25 billion all-cash acquisition of Isilon Systems, a fast-growing Scale-out Network Attached Storage systems company. Also counsel to EMC in obtaining clearance from the Federal Trade Commission to acquire Data Domain without a second request, clearing the way for Data Domain to accept EMC’s offer and withdraw from its agreement with NetApp.
- Counsel to TPG Capital in its acquisition of Vertafore from Hellman & Friedman and its co-investor JMI Equity for total consideration of $1.4 billion and in the debt and equity financing for the acquisition.
- Counsel to Agfa-Gevaert in a series of ICC arbitrations against a German group of companies and insolvency receiver in connection with disputes arising out of Agfa-Gevaert’s carve-out and divestiture of its former consumer imaging division in November 2004.
- Counsel to the underwriters, led by Citigroup Global Markets, JPMorgan Securities and Lehman Brothers, in the $1.1 billion SEC-registered initial public offering of VMware – the largest software IPO in the United States since 2004.
- Counsel to TPG, Carlyle and Permira in their $18.4 billion acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor, the largest-ever leveraged buyout of a technology company, to TPG in its $11.3 billion acquisition of SunGard Data Systems, and to TPG and Newbridge Capital in their investment in a leading Chinese computer manufacturer, Lenovo.
- Counsel to SONY BMG in the successful closure of the European Commission's investigation into the sale of music through the Apple’s iTunes platform.
- Counsel to RealNetworks and trade association ECIS, SIIA and a variety of other clients in the United States and the European Union in winning a landmark judgment before the European Court of First Instance in the Microsoft case.
- Counsel to LG.Philips LCD and its U.S. subsidiary, LG.Philips LCD America, in the U.S. Department of Justice investigation of possible price-fixing in the LCD panel industry and related civil class actions.
- Counsel to PeopleSoft Inc. in its $10 billion acquisition by Oracle Corporation and related litigation that resulted in PeopleSoft shareholders receiving a price 65 percent above Oracle’s original bid.
- Counsel to Compaq on a wide range of Internet, legal and regulatory issues in connection with distribution and privacy.
- Counsel to Acon Investments and Newbridge Latin America in connection with the establishment of Newbridge Technology Ventures, an investment group formed for the purpose of making investments in Internet and technology interests in Latin America.
- Counsel to Ricoh Company in the formation of a joint venture, Infoprint Solutions Company, to purchase the printing systems division of a worldwide IT firm, as well as a number of other transactions.
#2 in U.S. High Technology M&A (Announced, value)
Thomson Reuters (2010 Rankings)
Two of the Top Ten Business Deals of the Year
(HP's acquisition of EDS and
Google's acquisition of AdMob)
TIME (2009)
South East Asia Debt Market Deal of the Year and Singapore Deal of the Year
(Chartered Semiconductor’s capital raising plan)
Asian Legal Business (2006)
“This top-notch competition-oriented practice services a number of high-profile information and communication technology clients who benefit from the large team’s expertise in competition, regulatory advisory matters and litigation.”
“On the IT side, the team offers expertise in data protection and handles broader technology and media work.”
Chambers Global (2008)
“Clients believe [Cleary's] ‘astute’ lawyers ‘provide thorough analyses of the issues’ and are ‘excellent for complicated and strategic cases.’”
Chambers Europe (2008)
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