Daniel Mitz
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Daniel Mitz

Partner

Email

daniel.mitz@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 650 838 3805

Offices

Silicon Valley

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Daniel is Technology Sector Lead.
He represents companies in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. He has extensive experience advising clients on corporate governance and fiduciary duty matters.

Daniel has lived and worked in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • SAP in the acquisitions of Dremio and Prior Labs.
  • Sanmina in its USD3 billion acquisition from AMD of ZT Systems’ data center infrastructure manufacturing business.
  • SAP in the sale of Qualtrics to Silver Lake (USD12.5bn).
  • Hitachi in its acquisitions of GlobalLogic (USD9.5bn), Pentaho and REAN Cloud.
  • Hitachi Energy in its acquisition of Canduct eks Energy and its investment in Shermco.
  • NIC in its sale to Tyler Technologies (USD2.3bn).
  • Nvidia in its acquisition of Mellanox (USD6.9bn).
  • SAP in its acquisitions of Qualtrics (USD8bn), Emarsys, Callidus (USD2.4bn), Concur (USD8.3bn), Ariba (USD4.3bn), Sybase (USD5.8bn) and Gigya.
  • SAP in its sale of its Litmos to Francisco Partners, its sale of its Digital Interconnect business (USD250m) to Sinch and sale of its ERC and ERD businesses to Verisk.
  • GlobalLogic in its acquisition of Hexacta.
  • Citrix in its acquisition of Wrike (USD2.25bn).
  • Qualtrics in the carve out of Qualtrics from SAP and Qualtrics’ initial public offering raising USD1.55bn and concurrent USD670m private placements.
  • Qualtrics in its acquisition of Clarabridge (USD1.125bn).
  • Kaseya in its acquisition of Vonahi.
  • Cylance in its sale to BlackBerry (USD1.4bn).
  • Oclaro in its sale to Lumentum (USD1.8bn).
  • Inside Secure in its acquisition of Verimatrix for approximately USD145m.
  • Veramatrix in its sale of its Silicon IP and Secure Protocols business to Rambus (USD65m).
  • VMware in its acquisitions of CloudHealth Technologies and Arkin.
  • Ansys in its acquisitions of Granta Design and Optis.
  • Lam Research in its acquisitions of Novellus (USD3.3bn), attempted acquisition of KLA-Tencor (USD10.6bn) and acquisition of Coventor.
  • Canyon Bridge in its attempted acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor (USD1.3bn).
  • Itron in its acquisitions of Silver Spring Networks (USD830m) and Comverge (USD100m).
  • Linear Technology in its sale to Analog Devices (USD14.8bn).
  • Intersil in its sale to Renesas Electronics (USD3.2bn).
  • Atmel in its attempted sale to Dialog Semiconductor (USD4.6bn) and subsequent sale to Microchip (USD3.6bn).
  • Bell Microproducts in its sale to Avnet (USD594m).
  • Randstad in its acquisition of Monster (USD429m).
  • NXP in its acquisition of OmniPHY.
  • ETS in its acquisition of Questar (USD127.5m).
  • Second Measure in its sale to Bloomberg.
  • Check in its sale to Intuit (USD360m).
  • Next Insurance in its acquisition of AP Intego as well as in numerous financings, including its Series C financing led by Munich Re (USD250m), Series D financing led by Capital G (USD250m) and its Series G financing led by Allstate Insurance and Allianz X (USD265m).
  • GE in its acquisition of IQP.

Awards

  • Corporate/M&A - California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surrounds, Chambers USA, 2019-2025
  • MVP – Technology, Law360, 2017
  • Top 100 Lawyers in California, Daily Journal, 2012 and 2016

Qualifications

Admissions

California, 1995

Academic

B.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 1984, Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1989, New York University Law Review
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.