David Little

David’s experience includes advising:

Transactions

• Meta (formerly Facebook) in its acquisition of GIPHY and related UK litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal
• Microsoft in its US$19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance, a healthcare software provider
• Luxury fashion platform Farfetch in the expansion of its luxury new retail partnership, with an agreement for Farfetch to acquire a 47.5% stake in YOOX Net-a-Porter (YNAP) and for Richemont and YNAP to each adopt Farfetch Platform Solutions
• NVIDIA Corporation, in its planned US$40 billion acquisition of Arm 
• MGM, Hollywood’s most iconic movie studio and home to the James Bond franchise, in its US$8.45 billion acquisition by a multi-national technology company
• Medtech company GRAIL in the European Commission’s review of its acquisition by Illumina, a landmark case concerning application of the referral powers under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation and associated litigation before the General Court and Court of Justice in Luxembourg (Commended by the Financial Times Europe Innovative Lawyers Report 2022 in the Managing Complexity category)
• Bosch Rexroth in obtaining global merger clearance in relation to its acquisition of HydraForce
• A global cloud communications company on regulatory approvals associated with the acquisition of a mobile messaging solutions provider
• Ares on the sale of iconic paint and wallpaper brand Farrow & Ball to Hempel Group
• Two of the three consortium members purchasing Broadway’s FI business divestment assets
• Video game developer Tonic Games Group in its acquisition by Epic Games
• Triton in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in RENK AG from Volkswagen 
• The Walt Disney Company in connection with its US$71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox*
• Google in its acquisitions of BeatThatQuote and Waze*
• Sony Corporation of America in connection with: 
  • The EU and international antitrust aspects of its US$2.2 billion acquisition of EMI Music Publishing
  • Its acquisition of the 50% interest in Sony/ATV held by the Estate of Michael Jackson*
• GlaxoSmithKline in the global antitrust aspects of its multibillion-dollar, three-part transaction with Novartis, involving its consumer healthcare, vaccines, and oncology businesses*
• Medtronic in its US$49.9 billion acquisition of Covidien*
• The Dow Chemical Company in its US$130 billion all-stock merger of equals with DuPont*
• Airbus in its acquisition of the commercial aircraft division of Bombardier*
• AbbVie in the EU antitrust aspects of its US$21 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics*

Investigations & Litigation

• A global entertainment company in securing the early closure of an investigation into alleged anti-competitive agreements and conduct in the UK entertainment and recreation services sector
• An international media company in connection with the UK CMA’s market study on the supply of music to UK music streaming services
• The Walt Disney Company in connection with: 
  • The European Commission’s investigation into the cross-border licensing of online content* 
  • The UK Competition Commission’s investigation into the UK TV subscription market market*
• NVIDIA in an abuse of dominance complaint against Qualcomm, culminating in the European Commission’s first predatory pricing infringement decision in more than 15 years, and a related damages claim in the English High Court*
• Google in connection with the European Commission’s competition investigation of Google’s Search business*
• Equant (a subsidiary of France Telecom) in obtaining an emergency restraining order from the President of the European Court of First Instances* 
• Philips in connection with its defense against complaints alleging abuse of dominance in licensing LED technology* 

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham