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, and Hector Sants. 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.
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; 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.
