Sidley advised Lightspin Technologies, a contextual cloud security platform, in its pending acquisition by Cisco. Lightspin, headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel with operations in the United States, has developed leading technologies to find and understand vulnerabilities in enterprises’ cloud infrastructure.

The Sidley team was led by Aaron Rigby (M&A, Private Equity) and Dr. Idan Netser (Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, Tax). The Sidley team also included Jeremy B. Pettit (M&A), Ellen Heighten (M&A), Amanda Patterson (M&A), Nicholas Frey (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation), Malaz K. Moustafa (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation), Eric Kauffman (M&A), Jen Fernandez (Global Arbitration, Trade, and Advocacy), Carys Golesworthy (Global Arbitration, Trade, and Advocacy), Amir Freund (IP Litigation), Edward Sharon (Antitrust/Competition), Ash Nagdev (Privacy and Cybersecurity), Sasha Hondagneu-Messner (Privacy and Cybersecurity), Alison Appleby (Tax), and David Chriki (Emerging Companies and Venture Capital).