Practice Areas
Thomas Ivey, head of Skadden's Palo Alto M&A/Corporate practice, represents clients in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, advising public and private companies in complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, the issuance of equity and debt, joint ventures, exchange offers and restructurings. He is a frequent adviser to boards of directors on corporate governance and activist situations. He regularly represents underwriters, placement agents and financial advisors in technology-related transactions. His matters include representing: Trimble, Inc. in multiple matters, including its acquisitions of almost 20 companies, including Transporeon for $2 billion, several dispositions, including its agriculture business for approximately $3 billion in value, and public offerings of common stock, convertible notes and investment-grade bonds; Western Digital Corporation in its separation of its HDD and flash businesses to create two independent, public companies; J.P. Morgan in connection with multiple capital markets transactions for Axon; ServiceNow, Inc. in its acquisitions of Moveworks for $2.9 billion and Lightstep and its $1.5 billion offering of senior notes; Lucid in several billion dollars of equity and debt transactions and the acquisition of certain assets from Nikola's bankruptcy sale; 8x8, Inc. in various matters including its acquisition of Fuze and its $400 million debt exchange offer; McClatchy Company in the $312 million sale of substantially all of its assets to its largest bondholder Chatham Asset Management; the special committee of the SolarCity board in the company's $2.6 billion sale to Tesla; Autodesk in multiple matters, including its $3.9 billion proposed acquisition of Altium; as well as dozens of SPAC IPOs and de-SPAC transactions.
Career
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
