On April 25, 2012, IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vivisimo, a leading provider of federated discovery and navigation software. Cravath represented IBM in connection with this transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Cravath team included partner Minh Van Ngo and associates Femi H. Giwa, Jared W. DeMatteis and Curtis S. Tiffany on corporate matters; partner Andrew W. Needham and associates J. Leonard Teti II and Neetin Gulati on tax matters; partner Jennifer S. Conway, practice area attorney Michael Krasnovsky and associates Nicole F. Foster and Sarah E. Fortt on executive compensation and benefits matters; and partner Matthew Morreale on environmental matters.