Su Da
Counsel, Tax
Su Da advises public and private clients in numerous industries on a variety of internal and third-party transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, debt and equity financings, joint ventures, restructurings and international tax planning.
Bio
Selected representations include:
- Ansys, Inc. in its pending $35 billion sale to Synopsys, Inc.
- Edwards Lifesciences Corporation in its pending $4.2 billion sale of its Critical Care product group to Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Hg in its:
- acquisitions of AuditBoard, GTreasury, Litera Microsystems, Gen II Fund Services and Riskalyze
- investments in Insight Software and Lyniate
- sale of Sovos Compliance and Mitratech
- Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.
- Intel Corp. in its:
- $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye, N.V.
- joint investment with Brookfield for approximately $30 billion to create a first-of-its-kind Semiconductor Co-Investment Program
- proposed but terminated $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor Ltd.
- $4.2 billion joint venture with TPG Capital to form McAfee
- sale of its Wind River business to TPG Capital
- sale of its smartphone modem business to Apple Inc.
- sale of its home gateway platform division to MaxLinear, Inc.
- Visa Inc. in:
- its $1 billion acquisition of Pismo
- the tax aspects of its $23.4 billion acquisition and integration of Visa Europe Limited
- its proposed, but terminated, $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid
- Broadcom Corp. in its $37 billion sale to Avago Technologies Ltd.
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in the spin-off of its software business and combination with Micro Focus International plc
- Trimble Inc. in the sale and contribution of its agriculture business to a joint venture with AGCO Corporation
- Xilinx, Inc. in its $49 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Splunk Inc. in its $28 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc.
- SanDisk Corp. in its $19 billion acquisition by Western Digital Corp.
- Wolt Enterprises Oy in its $8 billion acquisition by DoorDash, Inc.
- Credit Karma, Inc. in its $8.1 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc.
- Coherent, Inc. in its $7 billion acquisition by II-VI Incorporated
- Apex Technology Co., Ltd. as a lead member of the consortium acquiring Lexmark International, Inc. in a transaction valued at $4 billion
- Cavium, Inc. in its $6 billion acquisition by Marvell Technology
- Group Ltd. and $1.4 billion acquisition of QLogic Corp.
- Dynegy Inc. in its $1.7 billion acquisition by Vistra Energy Corp.
- TiVo Inc. in its $1.1 billion acquisition by Rovi Corp.
- The Sage Group in its $850 million acquisition of Intacct Corp.
- Silver Lake Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in ServiceMax, Inc.
- Castik Capital in its portfolio company Waterlogic Group Holdings’ combination with Culligan International
- First Solar, Inc. in the financings and tax equity investments in its 250-megawatt Moapa solar project and 179-megawatt Switch Station solar projects
- Pattern Energy in the financings and tax-equity investments in its 3,515-megawatt SunZia wind project, Western Spirit wind project, 220-megawatt Grady wind project and 324-megawatt Broadview wind project
- Brookfield in its $733 million sale of a 391-megawatt portfolio of four operating wind assets in California and New Hampshire to NextEra Energy Partners
- Ørsted in its sale to PSEG and subsequent reacquisition of a 25% stake in the 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind project in New Jersey
- Starwood Energy Group in its acquisition and financings of the 102-megawatt Coram wind project and 150-megawatt Crane solar project from Consolidated Edison
- Theravance in a $450 million royalty monetization private placement
- NIO Inc. in its initial public offering
- Viking Cruises in various investments and offerings
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Yale Law School, 2014 (Yale Law Journal)
- B.A., Stanford University, 2011 (Phi Beta Kappa)
Admissions
- California
Su Da
Counsel, Tax
su.da@skadden.com