Mike Ringler

Mr. Ringler regularly advises boards, special committees and management teams on mission critical and transformative M&A transactions. He also advises boards and special committees confronting challenges to corporate control, such as unsolicited acquisition proposals, proxy contests and shareholder activism. Mr. Ringler is ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2010 and has been recognized on many occasions as a leader in his field by national and statewide publications, including The American Lawyer, The New York Times and California’s Daily Journal.

Mr. Ringler’s recent representative transactions include:

• Livongo Health in its $18.5 billion sale to Teladoc.
• Credit Karma in its $7.5 billion sale to Intuit.
• F5 Networks in its $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security.
• Xperi Corporation in its $3 billion merger with TiVo Corporation.
• DoorDash in its $410 million acquisition of Caviar from Square.

Mr. Ringler’s representative transactions prior to joining Skadden include:

• Hewlett-Packard in its:
  • $25 billion acquisition of Compaq and related proxy contest with Walter Hewlett; and
  • $5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive.
• Freescale in its $19 billion sale to a private equity consortium led by The Blackstone Group.
• CA Technologies in its $19 billion sale to Broadcom.
• Seagate in its:
  • $18 billion three-party sale to Silver Lake Partners and Veritas; and
  • $2 billion acquisition of Maxtor.
• Pixar in its $8 billion sale to The Walt Disney Company.
• Sun Microsystems in its:
  • $7.8 billion sale to Oracle; and
  • $2 billion acquisition of Cobalt Networks.
• McAfee in its $7.7 billion sale to Intel.
• MuleSoft in its $7 billion sale to Salesforce.com.
• Business Objects in its $7 billion sale to SAP;
• Informatica in its $5.3 billion sale to Permira Advisers and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
• LSI in its $5.2 billion merger with Agere Systems.
• Cypress Semiconductor in its $5 billion merger of equals with Spansion.
• FEI in its $4.8 billion sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific.
• Riverbed Technology in its $4 billion sale to Thoma Bravo.
• AppDynamics in its $3.8 billion sale to Cisco.
• Solectron in its $3.6 billion sale to Flextronics.
• Trulia in its $3.5 billion sale to Zillow.
• 3Com in its $3.3 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard.
• Aruba Networks in its $3 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard.
• Salesforce.com in a number of transactions, including its $2.5 billion acquisition of ExactTarget.
• 3PAR in its:
  • $2.4 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard following Hewlett-Packard’s unsolicited acquisition proposal for 3PAR during the pendency of 3PAR’s proposed $1.7 billion sale to Dell; and
  • proposed $1.7 billion sale to Dell (terminated following 3PAR’s receipt of an unsolicited acquisition proposal from Hewlett-Packard).
• The GoDaddy Group in its:
  • $2.25 billion sale to Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures; and
  • $1.8 billion acquisition of Host Europe Group.
• Taleo in its $2.2 billion sale to Oracle.
• Redback Networks in its $2.2 billion sale to Ericsson.
• Flatiron Health in its $2 billion sale to Roche.
• Apptio in its $2 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners.
• Marketo in its $1.8 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners.
• YouTube in its $1.7 billion sale to Google.
• CVent in its $1.65 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners.