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“The Twitter Transaction: Just Say Yes” with Martin W. Korman ’89, Partner, Corporate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

  • Sterling Law Building, Room 128 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT, 06511 United States (map)

Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.

Open to the Yale Community.

Lunch will be available.


Marty Korman has been a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for more than 25 years. Working with investors, boards, and management, he helps companies and investors navigate significant M&A and investment transactions and corporate governance matters. Recognized as one of the nation's most prominent M&A attorneys, Marty is particularly well known for his work in the technology sector, where he represents public and private companies in purchase and sale transactions. He also works closely with private equity sponsors in connection with the full range of private equity transactions, including going-private transactions and both majority and minority investments. Marty also works with Founders and their enterprises in structuring equity ownership, governance and liquidity.

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Select Transactions

  • Twitter in its sale to Elon Musk

  • Zynga in its merger with Take-Two

  • Medallia in its sale to Thoma Bravo

  • Pluralsight in its sale to Vista

  • Box in its successful proxy defense

  • LinkedIn in its merger with Microsoft

  • Brocade in its merger with Broadcom

  • Netsuite in its acquisition by Oracle

  • Altera in its merger with Intel

  • Sun Microsystems in its merger with Oracle

  • Genentech in its acquisition by Roche

  • Hewlett-Packard in its merger with Compaq

  • Pixar in its merger with Disney

  • Netscape in its sale to America Online

  • Over 20 companies in sale and spin-in transactions to Cisco

  • Founder representations include Tinder, Figs and Rodan & Fields


Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership.

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