Latham Advises NVIDIA on US$40 Billion Acquisition of Arm, Largest Semiconductor Deal in History
Latham & Watkins LLP represents NVIDIA in its acquisition of Arm Limited (Arm) from SoftBank in a cash and stock deal valued at up to US$40 billion. The combination brings together NVIDIA’s leading AI computing platform with Arm’s vast ecosystem to create the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence, accelerating innovation while expanding into large, high-growth markets. SoftBank will remain committed to Arm’s long-term success through its ownership stake in NVIDIA, expected to be under 10 percent.
The Latham deal team is led by M&A partners Josh Dubofsky and Charles Ruck in Silicon Valley and New York and Ed Barnett and Farah O’Brien in London, with associates Saad Khanani, Amro Suboh, Hector Sants, Stephanie Isaia, Oliver Cohen, Rachelle Polsky, Michael O’Halloran, Andria Varnavides, Angharad Simon, and Saavan Shah. San Francisco partner Joshua Holian, Brussels partner Sven Völcker, Washington, D.C. partner Les Carnegie, and London partners David Little and Charles Claypoole advised on regulatory matters with counsels Rita Motta, Jana Dammann, and Annie Froehlich, and associates Sophia Bertran, Natasha Pardawala, Giuditta Caldini, Alexandra Luchian, Niklas Brüggemann, and Rob Price.
Advice was also provided on tax matters by Washington, D.C. partner Nicholas DeNovio and London partner Sean Finn, with associates Pierce Pandolph, Aoife McCabe, and Jared Grimley; on intellectual property matters by London partner Deborah Kirk and Silicon Valley partner Anthony Klein, with associates Arielle Singh, Kirsty Watkins, Grace Erskine, and Elva Cullen; and on benefits and employment matters by London partner Catherine Drinnan, Paris partner Matthias Rubner, Munich partner Tobias Leder, and San Francisco partner Julie Crisp, with associates James Robinson, Adam Ray, Romain Nairi, and Agathe Flandre; on real estate matters by London partner Quentin Gwyer with associate Danni Davies; and on environmental matters by London partner Paul Davies with counsel Michael Green. Additional advice on the transaction was provided by counsels Rachel Alpert and Daniel Smith, and associates Jason Despain, Yasmina Vaziri, and Marcus Tomlison.