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Leading strategic advisor to global technology companies. Over the last 26 years at Morgan Stanley, have advised on over 200 M&A transactions, totaling over $300bn in transaction value. Recent and noteworthy transactions:* $26bn acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft* $20bn investment by Facebook/Google/SLP/Vista/others into Reliance/Jio* $10bn recap of Infor ($2bn+ investment from Koch)* $8bn strategic investment into Reliance/Jio by Facebook/SLP/Vista* $5bn sale of Vertafore to Roper* $5bn merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks* $4bn "Merger of Equals" of Spansion and Cypress* $2.7bn sale of Shutterfly to Apollo* $2.7bn sale of Cast & Crew to EQT* $2.3bn sale of Carbon Black to VMWare* $2.3bn sale of Conversant (formerly ValueClick) to Alliance Data Systems* $2.0bn sale of Polycom to Siris Capital* $2.0bn acquisition of Polycom by Plantronics* $1.9bn sale of Forescout to Advent* $1.6bn sale of Responsys to Oracle* $1.5bn sale of Cray to HPE* $1.5bn sale of Ruckus to Brocade* $1.3bn sale of Vlocity to Salesforce* $1.0bn sale of Eloqua to Oracle* $1.0bn acquisition of Mandiant by FireEye* $1.0bn sale of Move Inc to News Corp.* $1.0bn acquisition of Climate Corp. by Monsanto* $850m sale of Intacct to Sage* $800m acquisition of Lifetouch by Shutterfly* $800m sale of Braintree (mobile payments) to eBay* $750m sale of Accelrys to Dassault* $650m sale of Simplivity to HPE* $542m strategic capital raise for Magic Leap, led by Google* $500m sale of Skybox Imaging to Google* $480m minority investment/PIPE into Pandora by Sirius XM* $2.5bn sale of Quest Software to Dell (take-private/go-shop process)* $7.7bn sale of McAfee to Intel* $6.4bn sale of aQuantive to Microsoft* $3.3bn acquisition of 3Com by HP* $20bn sale of Seagate to Veritas, plus take-private of Disc Drive business Specialties include: positioning high-value disruptive companies in sale transactions, world-class strategic advice and experience in negotiating complex transactions, strategic acquisition advice, carve-outs, take-privates. I pride myself on passion for my clients' interests, integrity of advice, and straight talk.

Listed skills include Mergers And Acquisitions, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Valuation, and 22 others.