Davis Polk's Global Technology Group combines the firm's traditional strengths in transactional, advisory and litigation work with its in-depth understanding of the unique attributes of technology companies. Lawyers within the group work with technology companies, private equity and venture capital firms and investment banks on a broad range of complex M&A, joint venture, corporate finance and derivative transactions. The group, which includes lawyers from our offices in New York, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo, also has extensive experience with matters involving intellectual property, corporate governance, tax law, employee benefits and executive compensation, antitrust, securities compliance and litigation.
Our clients include technology companies such as Affymetrix, AMI Semiconductor, Comcast, E*TRADE, Mercury Interactive, NetIQ, Oracle, Silicon Graphics, Texas Instruments, VERITAS Software, Vignette, Vitesse Semiconductor, Yahoo! and a host of others, ranging from startups to some of the technology sector's most prominent companies. We represent a number of technology-oriented private equity and venture capital firms, including Francisco Partners, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Warburg Pincus. Our lawyers in Menlo Park support Silicon Valley-based activities for a number of the firm's global technology clients, including SAP and Pacific Century Cyberworks. We also regularly represent Bank of America, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse First Boston, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS and other leading underwriters.
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