March 21, 2008 (Mountain View, CA) – Fenwick & West LLP represented Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) in its recently announced acquisition of Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNP), a supplier of solutions for the design and verification of semiconductors. Synopsys will pay $8 cash per Synplicity share, for a total transaction value of approximately $227 million. The transaction is subject to regulatory and Synplicity shareholder approval, as well as other customary closing conditions. Synopsys, based in Mountain View, CA, is a provider of software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing.
More information about the transaction can be obtained from the Synopsys Web site.
The Fenwick & West transaction team included corporate attorneys Mark Leahy, Kris Withrow and Christian Lymn; intellectual property attorneys Michael Farn and Darren Hutchins; and employee benefits attorneys Blake Martell and Gerald Audant.
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