	Stephen Salmon Partner Northern California stephen.salmon@davispolk.com +1 650 752 2063 Mr. Salmon is a partner in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, practicing in Northern California. He advises on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions, including public and private transactions, cross-border transactions, private equity transactions and restructurings, as well as a variety of capital markets offerings for clients across many industries.

Stephen Salmon

Partner

Northern California

+1 650 752 2063

Mr. Salmon is a partner in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, practicing in Northern California. He advises on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions, including public and private transactions, cross-border transactions, private equity transactions and restructurings, as well as a variety of capital markets offerings for clients across many industries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NEWS, INSIGHTS & EVENTS

Work Highlights

Mergers and Acquisitions Representations

World Kitchen on its acquisition by Cornell Capital
Ingram Micro on its sale to HNA Technology Group, a subsidiary of HNA Group
Equinix on its acquisition of the Infomart Dallas
D+M Group on its acquisition by Sound United, a portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital
Dialog Semiconductor on its attempted acquisition of Atmel
Tencent Ventures on various private company investments
A consortium of lenders in connection with its successful credit bid for assets of Essar Steel Algoma in connection with Algoma’s Canadian restructuring proceedings
J.P. Morgan on the acquisition of Dell by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners
Reliance Steel on its acquisition of Metals USA
Dialog Semiconductor on its acquisition of iWatt
Mirion Technologies and American Capital on the acquisition of Mirion by Charterhouse Capital
Blue Coat Systems on its acquisition by an investor group led by Thoma Bravo
Vector Capital on its acquisition of Gerber Scientific and concurrent disposition of assets

Oracle on multiple public and private acquisitions and dispositions, including the acquisitions of Art Technology Group, Phase Forward, GoldenGate, Hyperion, Stellent and Metasolv
Citigroup on multiple loan portfolio dispositions
W Capital on multiple primary and secondary investments in technology companies

Capital Markets Representations

IPOs of Denali, Aimmune Therapeutics, Virgin America, Coherus BioSciences, Violin Memory, UCP and Internet Brands
Investment-grade notes offerings by Cadence, Reliance Steel and Leidos and others
Convertible notes offerings by DexCom, Enphase Energy, Citrix, Accuray, Invensense, Beckman Coulter and others

General Corporate Advisory Work

Public reporting, securities compliance and corporate governance advice for companies like BBAM, Dialog Semiconductor, Leidos, Blue Coat and Mirion Technologies