October 26, 2007 (Mountain View and San Francisco, CA) – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Fenwick & West LLP represented Facebook in their expanded strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT). Under the strategic alliance, Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing and will be the exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook. Facebook, based in Palo Alto, CA, is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and co-workers.
More information about the transaction can be obtained from the Facebook Web site.
The Fenwick & West deal team included attorneys Ted Wang, Coleman Cannon, Spencer Glende, Mariana Antcheva, Ben Longoria, Dawn Belt and Kamran Khan.
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