Ho Yee Cynthia Lam

Cynthia Lam has a diverse corporate practice representing clients in M&A and complex strategic transactions, as well as capital markets and corporate governance matters. She regularly advises public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions.

Ms. Lam’s select representative matters include:

• Activision Blizzard Inc. in its $75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation
• Xilinx, Inc. in its $49 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
• Intel Corporation in its $22 billion joint investment arrangement with Apollo relating to a new chip factory in Ireland and its acquisition of Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd.
• 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 acquisition of Animal Logic
• WeWork in its $8 billion transaction in which SoftBank provided financing to the company and acquired a majority of its outstanding shares through a tender offer and its merger with BowX Acquisition Corp at an enterprise value of $9 billion
• Perella Weinberg Partners LP in its merger with FinTech Acquisition Corp. IV at an enterprise value of $975 million
• Permira Funds in its significant strategic investment in Axiom Global Inc.
• carsales.com Ltd in its $624 million acquisition of a 49% stake in Trader Interactive and its subsequent $809 million acquisition of the remaining 51% stake in the company
• Western Digital in the pending split of its hard disk drive and NAND memory businesses, creating two separate public companies
• 8x8, Inc. in its $250 million acquisition of Fuze, Inc. and exchange offer of $404 million of its 0.5% convertible senior notes due 2024
• ServiceNow, Inc. in its acquisition of LightStep, Inc.
• Velodyne Lidar, Inc. in its merger of equals with Ouster, Inc.
• Hexaware Technologies Limited in its acquisition of Softcrylic LLC
• Bright Lights Acquisition Corp. in its proposed (but terminated) merger with MANSCAPED at an enterprise value of $1 billion
• Virgin Trains USA LLC in a $1.75 billion offering of private activity bonds and subsequent $600 million offering of public activity bonds