Sep. 13, 2012
Gregory Roussel
See more on Gregory RousselFenwick & West LLP Mountain View Corporate Specialty: mergers and acquisitions
With the rapid expansion of mobile devices, it seems that everyone has his head in the cloud these days.
Cloud computing is a system for delivering hosted computing services over the Internet.
"Every technology company is working on a mobile strategy and is racing toward the ability to deliver - whether it's networking or storage or content - to people wherever they are, on whatever device they have," Roussel said. "There is a lot of opportunity out there, with the rapid expansion of the number of people who have Smartphones."
In one example of this trend, Roussel represented Bytemobile Inc., a provider of data and video optimization solutions for mobile network operators, in its acquisition by Citrix Systems Inc.
In the deal, announced in July, Santa Clara-based Bytemobile will continue as an independent product group within the Citrix cloud networking group.
Bytemobile operates in more than 60 countries, Roussel said, with a reactively small work force of only 300 employees - another sign of the times.
"More and more of our deals have these international components," Roussel said. "A lot of companies of all sizes are establishing operations worldwide."
As for the Citrix deal, Roussel said, "It was an interesting and engaging process with a large acquirer. There were a lot of legal challenges that needed to be solved with a client that has these kinds of operations, employees and customers around the world."
As lead mergers and acquisitions counsel for Facebook Inc., Roussel also handled such recent acquisitions as Instagram Inc., Spool, Face.com Inc., Karma Science, Glancee, Tagtile and Gowalla Inc., and also represents Dropbox Inc. and AirBNB Inc. in their acquisitions.
Within the past few years, Roussel has represented Data Domain Inc. in its $2.4 billion sale to EMC Corp.; Ngmoco Inc. in its sale to DeNA Co. Ltd. for $400 million; and Newtoy Inc. - Words with Friends - in its sale to Zynga Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
- PAT BRODERICK
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