Cravath Publishes Winter 2026 Issue of Alumni Journal
On July 23, 2015, IBM announced the acquisition of San Mateo, CA‑based Compose, Inc., a privately held company that provides MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and other database as a service (DBaaS) offerings targeted at web and mobile application developers. Cravath represented IBM in connection with this transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Cravath team included associate William D. Podurgiel on M&A matters; partner J. Leonard Teti II and associate Richard Bohm on tax matters; associate Aaron J. Feuer on executive compensation and benefits matters; and partner Matthew Morreale on environmental matters. Summer associate Nicholas M. Reichard also worked on M&A matters.
Deals & Cases
April 07, 2025
On April 7, 2025, IBM announced it has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a leading global data and AI consultancy. Hakkoda will expand IBM Consulting's data transformation services portfolio, adding specialized data platform expertise to help clients get their data ready to fuel AI‑powered business operations. Cravath is representing IBM in connection with the transaction.
Deals & Cases
September 10, 2024
On September 9, 2024, IBM announced its intent to acquire Accelalpha, a global Oracle services provider with deep expertise helping clients digitize core business operations and accelerate adoption of Oracle Cloud Applications. This acquisition expands IBM's Oracle consulting expertise in supply chain and logistics, finance, enterprise performance management and customer transformation. Cravath is representing IBM in connection with the transaction.
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