Lynda M. Twomey
Corporate
Lynda represents private and public technology companies in the software, networking, internet, IoT, data analytics, artificial intelligence and life science sectors, and her practice is primarily focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, startup counseling and venture capital financing.
Lynda has negotiated and completed hundreds of public and private mergers, divestitures, spinoffs and other strategic transactions and is recognized as a leading practitioner for technology company M&A.
- Numerous acquisitions for Cisco Systems, including Scientific-Atlanta ($6.9B), Jasper Technologies ($1.4B), Pure Digital ($590M), U.K.-based Ubiquisys ($310M), CloudLock ($293M), Sweden-based Tail-F Systems ($175M), Cariden Technologies ($141M), 1 Mainstream and many others
- Divestitures by Cisco Systems of its Connected Devices business unit to Technicolor ($600M), its Linksys business unit to Belkin and its manufacturing operations in Mexico to Foxconn
- Amazon’s acquisition of Cloostermans
- Sale of 2lemetry (IoT) to Amazon.com
- Concur’s acquisition ($8.3B) by SAP
- Sakti3’s acquisition ($90M) by Dyson
- Opsware’s merger with Hewlett-Packard ($1.6B)
- Flashsoft’s acquisition by SanDisk
- Netscreen Technologies merger with Juniper Networks ($4.3B)
- KalVista Pharmaceutical’s reverse merger with Carbylan Therapeutics
- Acquisitions by Agilent Technologies of Varian ($1.5B) and Stratagene ($250M)