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Ian B. Carter
Experience
Private Equity
and Debt Offerings. Ian's debt and equity offering experience
includes private placements by Synapsense Corporation, RealEnergy,
AYR Networks, TZero Technologies, BeVocal, Panther Express, and Kiwi
Networks; equity investments by Kayne Anderson Private Investors,
Vantage Point Venture Partners, DCM, Unilever Technology Ventures,
Mitsui Venture Partners, and Lombard Street Partners; and venture
debt transactions with Silicon Valley Bank, Western Technology Investment,
and Lighthouse Capital Partners.
Public Offerings.
Ian has represented numerous companies in connection with initial
and follow-on public offerings, including initial public offerings
by Stamps.com, Overstock.com, Altiris, Inc., and PalmSource, Inc.
and follow-on offerings by E.piphany, Inc. and Intraware.
Mergers and
Acquisitions. Ian has represented both public and private
companies in mergers and acquisitions. His representation in
this area includes:
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Counsel to Alinda Capital
Partners, a $3 billion infrastructure fund, in connection with its
acquisition (merger; cash & stock) of Republic ITS, a US based
infrastructure company, in a merger transaction, price not disclosed.
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Counsel to Optimost
LLC, a multivariable website optimization company, in connection
with its approximately $52 million sale (merger; cash) to Interwoven,
Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV).
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Counsel to Skymatter
Limited, an innovative developer of 3D imaging and modeling software
for the film, television and game market segments, in connection
with its sale (asset; cash) to Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), price
not disclosed.
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Counsel to Synnex Corporation
(NYSE: SNX), a leading business process services company, in connection
with its acquisition (merger; cash) of Concentrix Corporation, price
not disclosed.
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Counsel to GetActive
Software, Inc., a provider of online constituent relationship management
solutions, in connection with its acquisition (merger; stock) by
Convio, Inc., price not disclosed.
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Counsel to PortalPlayer,
Inc. (NASDAQ: PLAY), a fables semiconductor company, in connection
with its approximately $357 million sale to nVidia Corporation (NASDAQ:
NVDA).
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Counsel to VMWare, Inc.
(NYSE: VMW), a provider of visualization solutions for servers and
desktops, in connection with its approximately $625 million sale
(merger; cash) to the EMC Corporation.
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Counsel to yellowpages.com,
Inc., a provider of online searchable directory listings, in connection
with its sale (merger; cash) to SBC and Bell South, now AT&T
(NYSE: T), price not disclosed.
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Counsel to HP (NYSE:
HPQ), a complete technology product portfolio company, in connection
with its approximately $1 billion acquisition (share exchange) of
Indigo, N.V.
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