Richard Climan

Richard “Rick” E. Climan is a leading mergers & acquisitions lawyer who has handled some of the most prominent and industry-changing acquisitions in the technology and life sciences sectors over the past three decades. He is the global head of the technology M&A practice at Hogan Lovells. He has been described as "one of the best legal minds in M&A" and a "gold standard transactional lawyer." Rick excels at negotiating and advising multinational clients on all types of acquisition transactions and related matters. In the recent past, Rick acted as lead transactional counsel to Walmart in its US$16 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Flipkart, lead transactional counsel to Marvell Technology in its US$10 billion acquisition of Inphi and its $6.3 billion acquisition of Cavium, and lead transactional counsel to Synopsys in its US$565 acquisition of Black Duck Software and its pending US$330 million acquisition of WhiteHat Security.