Christopher P. Hammond

Mr. Hammond’s experience includes representing:

• Visa, Inc. in its pending $1 billion acquisition of Pismo
• Intel Corporation in its agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. to jointly invest approximately $30 billion to create a first-of-its-kind Semiconductor Co-Investment Program that introduces a new funding model to the semiconductor industry
• Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.
• Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. in its sale of zColo, including certain U.S. and European data center assets, to DataBank Holdings, Ltd.; its acquisition of Indiana Fiber Network, LLC d/b/a Intelligent Fiber Network; and its acquisition of Education Networks of America, Inc.
• Credit Karma, Inc. in its $8.1 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc., the largest-ever venture-backed fintech sale and one of the top five largest internet M&A transactions ever
• Trimble Inc. in the sale and contribution of its agriculture business to a joint venture with AGCO Corporation, as well as AGCO’s $2 billion acquisition of an 85% stake in the joint venture
• Netflix, Inc. in its acquisitions of Scanline VFX and Animal Logic
• Yahoo! Inc. in the $4.5 billion sale of its operating business to Verizon Communications Inc.
• Sabre Corporation in its sale of the AirCentre suite of flight and crew management software solutions to CAE Inc. for $392.5 million
• SJW Group in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Connecticut Water Service, Inc. and in its successful defense against a hostile takeover attempt by California Water Service Group
• J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as financial advisor to Misonix, Inc. in its $518 million acquisition by Bioventus Inc.
• Silver Lake in its acquisition of a majority stake in ServiceMax from GE Digital
• Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in its joint venture with SK Hynix System Ic, Inc.
• F5 Networks, Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security, Inc.
• WL Ross Holding Corp. in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Nexeo Solutions Holdings, LLC from TPG Capital
• DoorDash, Inc. in its $410 million acquisition of Caviar, Inc. from Square, Inc.
• LeanTeq Co., Ltd. in its $305 million acquisition by EnPro Industries, Inc.
• Calera Capital in a number of transactions, including its acquisitions of majority stakes in Arnott, Inc. and ImageFIRST Healthcare Laundry Specialists, Inc. and its sale of a majority stake in United Site Services, Inc.
• RPX Corporation in its $555 million acquisition by HGGC, LLC
• Lattice Semiconductor Corp. in its proposed but terminated $1.3 billion going-private acquisition by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners
• ServiceMax, Inc., a portfolio company of Silver Lake, in its acquisition of Zinc, Inc.

Mr. Hammond is a member of the Palo Alto office’s Hiring Committee. He also established and co-chairs Skadden’s Palo Alto Family Affinity Group.