David Silverman

David is a member of Cooley’s M&A group, and has a particular emphasis on private equity and complex transactions in the technology sector. His clients include strategic and financial buyers and sellers in public and private acquisitions such as private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts, strategic acquisitions, business combinations with public companies and take-private transactions.

David also has significant experience counseling boards of directors in connection with mergers and acquisitions and related governance, as well as anti-takeover matters. David represents a broad range of technology companies, including financial technology, software, ecommerce, healthcare IT, telecommunications, media, consumer, retail and services companies.

David’s recent transactions include representing:

• AppHarvest in its $1 billion business combination with Novus Capital Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)
• Apttus in its sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo
• AvePoint in its $2 billion business combination with Apex Technology, a SPAC
• Axel Springer in its acquisition of Morning Brew
• Axel Springer in its $79 million acquisition of Appcast
• Binary Fountain in its sale to Press Ganey
• Chrome River in its sale to K1 and combination with Certify in a $1 billion transaction
• Core Scientific in its $4 billion business combination with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., a SPAC
• Core Scientific in its acquisition of Blockcap
• CSP Technologies in its $360 million sale to Wendel
• Datto in its sale to Vista Equity Partners
• eSentire in its sale to Warburg Pincus
• Everyday Health in its $465 million sale to Ziff Davis
• Farapulse in an investment and exclusive acquisition option arrangement with Boston Scientific
• Frontline in its acquisition of Perennial EdTech
• Frontline Education in its sale to Thoma Bravo
• Group Nine Media in its acquisition of PopSugar
• iCIMS in its sale to Vista Equity Partners
• Instructure on its agreement to sell to Thoma Bravo for $2 billion
• Instructure on its sale of Bridge to Learning Technologies Group
• Klass Capital in its acquisition of Rightsline
• Knowable in its acquisition by RELX and Knowable Executive Holdings
• Kyriba in its sale to Bridgepoint in a $1.2 billion transaction
• MediaMath in its $225 million equity financing with Searchlight Capital
• OrbiMed Advisors in multiple investments in domestic and multinational medical technology companies, and sales of certain portfolio companies
• Packable in its $1.5 billion business combination with Highland Transcend Partners, a SPAC
• Pamplona Capital in its acquisitions of Logicworks and Legacy.com
• PatientPop in its merger with Kareo
• Pharmapacks in its $250 million strategic investment from The Carlyle Group
• Rigetti in its $1 billion business combination with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, a SPAC
• Sanitas Healthy Ventures in its the acquisition of CrossFit
• SeatGeek in its $1.4 billion business combination with RedBall Acquisition Corp., a SPAC
• Sol De Janeiro in its sale to the L’Occitane Group
• Tenable in its acquisition of Indegy
• The Carlyle Group in its majority investment in HireVue
• The management team of Brillio in its sale to Bain Capital
• The management team of GHX in its sale to Temasek
• The management team of Medpace in its $930 million sale to Cinven
• Toba Capital in multiple investments in domestic and multinational software companies, and sales of certain portfolio companies
• Trilogy Education in its $750 million sale to 2U
• Vincent Smith, Quest Software chairman and CEO, in his going-private bid for Quest Software and sale to Dell
• Web.com in its $2 billion take-private sale to Siris Capital
• Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe in its acquisition of Clearwater Analytics
• ZOLL Medical Corporation in its acquisition of Cardiac Science from Aurora Resurgence