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Alan F. Denenberg
Partner
Mr. Denenberg is a member of our Corporate Department, practicing in the Menlo Park office. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions. His practice includes a broad range of public and private equity and debt financing representing both domestic and foreign issuers and underwriters in a variety of industries, including technology, telecommunications, health care, retail and manufacturing. In the mergers and acquisitions area, Mr. Denenberg has worked on a number of public and private transactions, representing both acquirer and target companies, as well as private equity firms.
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Bar Admissions
  • State of California
  • State of New York
Education
  • B.A., McGill University, 1982
  • LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 1985
  • LL.M., Columbia Law School, 1987

Work Highlights

Capital Markets

Mr. Denenberg has worked on public offerings, including convertible, investment-grade and high-yield debt and equity offerings, for a variety of companies, including AMD, American Medical Systems, Baidu, Borland, Boston Properties, Cisco, Concur Technologies, Cypress Semiconductor, EnerNOC, Equinix, Fortinet, GT Solar, Intel, Intuit, MacroVision, Nice-Systems, OpenTable, Seagate, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonosite, STR, Taleo, Theravance, VeriFone, Xilinx and Wet Seal.

Asia

He spent five years practicing in Asia, during which time he focused on cross-border financings and mergers and acquisitions, including various financings by Telstra, the Australian telecommunications company, and China Eastern Airlines.

Mergers and Acquisitions Representations

  • Equinix in its pending acquisition of Switch & Data
  • MSC Software in its sale to Symphony Technology Group
  • MediaTek in its acquisition of the cellular chip business of Analog Devices
  • PowerDsine in its sale to Microsemi
  • BeVocal in its sale to Nuance
  • Francisco Partners in its acquisition of WatchGuard

Mr. Denenberg has regularly provided general corporate advice to companies, including Equinix, Ingram Micro, MediaTek, MSC Software, Mirion Technology, Reliance Steel, Richemont International, Smart Modular and UltraClean Technologies. He also has represented private equity funds, including Atelier Fund, Elevation Partners, Francisco Partners, MPM Capital and Vector Capital.

Recognition

Listed as a leading lawyer in several legal industry publications, including:

  • Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business
  • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
  • Practical Law Company’s Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook, Cross-border Finance: Secured Lending Handbook and Cross-border Capital Markets Handbook
  • Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal: California
Professional History
  • Partner, Davis Polk, 2000-present
  • Partner (San Francisco); Managing Partner (Singapore office), Shearman & Sterling, 1994-2000