Christopher J. Bors

Mr. Bors’ experience includes representing clients across a wide array of industries, with a particular emphasis on technology, semiconductor, private equity and life sciences, including:

Technology Transactions

• Activision Blizzard Inc. in its pending $75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation;
• Intel Corporation in its $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye, N.V., and various other transactions;
• Mobileye Global Inc. in its $1 billion IPO and concurrent private placement;
• Velodyne Lidar, Inc. in its pending merger-of-equals with Ouster, Inc.;
• Trimble Inc. in its pending $2 billion acquisition of Transporeon GmbH from Hg;
• Coherent in its initially announced $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum, followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war culminating in Coherent’s $7.1 billion sale to II-VI;
• Visa Inc. in its proposed but terminated $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid Inc.; and
• Wolt Enterprises Oy in its £7 billion acquisition by DoorDash, Inc.

Private Equity

• Permira Funds in several transactions, including its $1.75 billion acquisition of Duff & Phelps;
• Silver Lake Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in ServiceMax, Inc. from GE Digital LLC;
• RPX Corporation in its $555 million acquisition by HGGC;
• a private equity firm-backed IT company in its acquisition of companies based in the U.S., Germany and Israel; and
• a private equity firm in its acquisition, with financial partners, of assets from a manufacturer and designer of composite structures for spacecraft and other high-tech applications.

Other Representations

• Evercore as financial advisor to Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. in its $5.5 billion acquisition by Broadcom Limited;
• FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with Starry, Inc. at an enterprise value of $1.76 billion;
• ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $919 million merger with Tempo Automation Inc.;
• Crescent Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, in its proposed but terminated business combination with F45 Training Holding Inc.; and
• Viking Cruises, Ltd. in its $500 million investment from TPG Capital, L.P. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Other representative transactions prior to joining Skadden include, among others:

• a technology company in its divestiture of a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service, acquisition of a PAAS business and investment in an early stage cloud services company;
• a semiconductor company in various acquisitions, divestitures and joint venture arrangements, including the divestiture of two security businesses, the acquisition of two startup companies developing leading-edge wearable technology, the acquisition of assets related to a variety of businesses and other strategic acquisitions;
• a semiconductor company in an investment in a radio chip design company;
• an electronic design automation company in its acquisition of a provider of customizable data plane processors;
• a medical device company in its acquisition by a global health care company; and
• a pharmaceutical company in its acquisition of a developer of migraine treatment devices.

In recognition of his work, Mr. Bors was named one of Best Lawyers’ 2024 Ones To Watch. While a corporate associate at a prior firm, Mr. Bors was seconded on a part-time basis to a large technology company to serve as M&A counsel.