David K. Michaels
Mountain View 650.335.7258 dmichaels
David Michaels has over 30 years of experience representing companies across a variety of industries in mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt financings and other strategic and financing transactions.
David offers strategic counseling in a wide range of complex transactions and acquisitions, including public company mergers and tender offers, private company acquisitions and joint ventures. His M&A experience includes a number of cross-border transactions involving clients based in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and includes transactions in the software, life sciences, hardware, semiconductor, games and digital entertainment industries. David also counsels companies and their boards on corporate governance and shareholder activist matters. In 2018, The Legal 500 named David among the top-ranking lawyers for M&A middle market transactions in the U.S.
Representative Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions:
Loxo Oncology in its $8B acquisition by Eli Lilly
Corium in its $504M acquisition by Gurnet Point Capital
King Digital Entertainment in its $5.9B acquisition by Activision Blizzard
Giant Interactive Group in its $3B going-private acquisition by a private-equity backed consortium
Callidus Software in its $2.4B acquisition by SAP
Infoblox in its $1.6B acquisition by Vista Equity Partners
Spreadtrum Communications in its $1.78B acquisition by Tsinghua Unigroup
Grapeshot in its acquisition by Oracle
Plangrid in its $875M acquisition by Autodesk
Ocular Sciences in its $1.2B acquisition by The Cooper Companies
eHi Car Services (China) in its $930M going-private acquisition by a sponsor-backed consortium (counsel to special committee)
RAE Systems in its going-private acquisition by Vector Capital
Interwoven in its $775M acquisition by Autonomy
Connetics in its $640M acquisition by Steifel Laboratories
Silicon Image in its $600M acquisition by Lattice Semiconductor
ShoreTel in its $430M acquisition by Mitel
Dragonplay in its $100M acquisition by Bally Technologies
Peplin in its $287M acquisition by LEO Pharma
Fortinet in its acquisitions of Zonefox and Bradford Networks
Cloudera in its $5.2B merger of equals with Hortonworks
Dexcom in its acquisition of TypeZero Technologies
Adesto in its acquisition of Echelon
Uptake in its acquisition of Asset Performance Technologies
Nexon in its acquisition of Pixelberry Studios and in a number of investment transactions
Model N in its acquisition of Revitas
Symantec in its $4.65B acquisition of Blue Coat Systems, its $2.3B acquisition of LifeLock and in numerous other related M&A and financing transactions
Shanghai Giant Network Technology and consortium of investors in its $4.4B acquisition of Caesars Interactive Entertainment's Playtika
KalVista Pharmaceuticals in its majority share purchase agreement of Carbylan
FanDuel in its acquisition of AlphaDraft and numberFire
Singapore Telecommunications in its $810M acquisition of Trustwave and $321M acquisition of Amobee
Shutterfly in its acquisition of MyPublisher and BorrowLenses
Electronic Arts in its $680M acquisition of JAMDAT Mobile; and a number of other acquisitions for EA
Flextronics International in its $2.4B acquisition of Dii Group, its $725M acquisition of Nortel Networks and dozens of other acquisitions for Flextronics
David has played a lead role in a number of capital markets and debt financing transactions.
Representative Capital Markets and Debt Financing Transactions:
144A convertible debt offerings by Amyris, Cepheid, Chegg, Concur, Corium, Dermira, Dexcom, Flextronics, GoPro, Proofpoint, Redfin, ServiceNow, Symantec, Uber, Vocera and Workday
Cisco Systems in various debt offerings totaling $30.25B
Public debt offerings for Agilent, Intuit and Symantec
Syndicated credit facilities for Agilent, Airbnb, Chegg, Cisco Systems, Dermira, Dropbox, Diamond Foods, Fitbit, GoPro, Intuit, Jam City, Katerra, LendingClub, Model N, Stripe, Symantec, Turn Networks, VeriSign and Flextronics
David also has significant experience with a wide range of derivative transactions.
During law school, David served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.
Education & Admissions
J.D., Cornell Law School, 1986
magna cum laude, Editor of the Cornell Law Review
B.A., Hamilton College, 1983
Member of the State Bars of California and New York​​​​​​