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Provided by Michael Ringler
Mike Ringler represents boards, special committees and management teams on complex strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other transformative business transactions. He also regularly advises boards and special committees when confronting challenges to corporate control, including unsolicited acquisition proposals, hostile takeovers, proxy contests and shareholder activism. His transactions include advising Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter; Proofpoint in its $12.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo (largest-ever private equity acquisition of a cloud software company); Livongo Health in its $18.5 billion sale to Teladoc (largest-ever digital health deal); Credit Karma in its $8.1 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc. (largest-ever venture-backed fintech deal); and Coherent in its initially announced $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum, followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war culminating in Coherent’s $7 billion sale to II-VI. He has been recognized as a Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer, an M&A MVP by Law360 and as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, B.S., University of Michigan
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