Mike Ringler

• xAI in its $250 billion sale to SpaceX, creating a combined company valued at $1.25 trillion, the largest private company merger in history
• Elon Musk, xAI and X in the $113 billion merger of xAI and X
• xAI in its $20 billion and $5.5 billion equity financings, $5 billion debt financing and numerous confidential acquisitions 
• Elon Musk and xAI on their investment in the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) and participation in AIP’s $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers
• Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter*
• Ansys in its $35 billion sale to Synopsys*
• Splunk in its $30 billion sale to Cisco Systems*
• Hewlett-Packard in its $25 billion acquisition of Compaq (and related proxy fight with Walter Hewlett) and its $5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive*
• CA Technologies in its $19 billion sale to Broadcom*

• Freescale in its $19 billion sale to a consortium of private equity financial sponsors*
• Livongo Health in its $18.5 billion sale to Teladoc*
• Seagate in its $18 billion three-party sale to Silver Lake Partners and Veritas*
• Proofpoint in its $12.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo*
• SK Hynix in its $9 billion acquisition of Intel’s memory business*
• Credit Karma in its $8 billion sale to Intuit*
• Pixar in its $8 billion sale to The Walt Disney Company*
• Sun Microsystems in its $8 billion sale to Oracle and its $2 billion acquisition of Cobalt Networks*
• McAfee in its $7.7 billion sale to Intel*
• Mulesoft in its $7 billion sale to salesforce*
• Business Objects in its $7 billion sale to SAP*
• Entegris in its $6.5 billion acquisition of CMC Materials*
• Coherent in its initially announced $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum, followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war culminating in Coherent’s $7 billion sale to II-VI*
• Informatica in its $5.5 billion sale to a consortium of private equity financial sponsors*
• LSI in its $5.2 billion merger with Agere Systems*
• Cypress Semiconductor in its $5 billion merger of equals with Spansion*
• FEI in its $5 billion sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific*
• Riverbed Technology in its $4 billion sale to Thoma Bravo*
• AppDynamics in its $4 billion sale to Cisco Systems*
• Solectron in its $3.6 billion sale to Flextronics*
• Trulia in its $3.5 billion merger with Zillow*
• 3Com in its $3.5 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard*
• Aruba Networks in its $3 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard*
• Xperi Corporation in its $3 billion merger with TiVo Corporation*
• Salesforce in its $2.5 billion acquisition of ExactTarget*
• 3PAR in its initially announced $1.7 billion sale to Dell, followed by 3PAR’s subsequent responses to an unsolicited acquisition proposal from Hewlett-Packard culminating in 3PAR’s $2.5 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard*
• The GoDaddy Group in its $2.3 billion sale to a consortium of private equity financial sponsors and its $2 billion acquisition of Host Europe Group*
• Taleo in its $2.2 billion sale to Oracle*
• Redback Networks in its $2.2 billion sale to Ericsson*
• Flatiron Health in its $2 billion sale to Roche*
• Apptop in its $2 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners*
• Marketo in its $2 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners*
• Iora Health in its $2 billion sale to 1Life Healthcare*
• Shield AI, on debt and equity financing aspects, in connection with its pending acquisition of Aechelon Technology and its $1.5 billion Series G funding
• F5 Networks in its $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security*

*Denotes representations undertaken prior to joining S&C.