Peter Jones

• 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 on the $113 billion merger of xAI and X
• Ansys in its $35 billion sale to Synopsys*
• Splunk Inc. in its $28 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc.*
• Tesla on various corporate, corporate governance, compliance and disclosure matters, including in Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation award
• xAI on various matters, including in its $20 billion and $5.5 billion equity fundraisings, $5 billion debt financing and in connection with the Apollo-led $3.5 billion capital solution for Valor Compute Infrastructure
• 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
• Agilent Technologies in its $950 million pending acquisition of Biocare Medical from an investor group led by Excellere Partners and GHO Capital Partners

• GIC in its $14 billion acquisition of STORE Capital Corporation, alongside Oak Street and the related equity financing arrangements*
• Adeia Inc. (formerly Xperi Holding Corporation) in the spin-off of its product business into an independent public company called Xperi Inc.*
• Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.*
• HPS Investment Partners in its investment in Authentic Brands Group at a valuation of $12.7 billion*
• Proofpoint in its $12.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo*
• Livongo in its $18.5 billion acquisition by Teladoc Health*
• SK Hynix in its $9 billion acquisition of Intel’s memory business*
• Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, Inc., in connection with Zuora, Inc.’s $1.7 billion acquisition by Silver Lake and Mr. Tzuo’s rollover and ongoing governance and employment arrangements
• Hg in a number of matters, including its investment in GTreasury; the investment made in Intelerad by TA Associates; its further investment in Lyniate alongside other institutional clients of Hg; its acquisition of Riskalyze, Inc.; its investment in Managed Markets Insight & Technology, LLC; and the sale of Mitratech to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and on the terms of its continued minority investment in Mitratech*
• F5 Networks in a number of matters, including its $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security*, $440 million acquisition of Volterra*, acquisition of Threat Stack*, acquisition of LeakSignal, acquisition of Insight Engines and acquisition of Mantis Networks
• 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*
• Xperi Corporation in its $3 billion merger with TiVo Corporation*
• Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. in its $14.3 billion acquisition by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund, the largest media and communications lever­aged buyout since the 2008 financial crisis*
• Tien Tzuo, CEO of the Board of Zuora, in its $1.7 billion acquisition by Silver Lake Partners and in Mr. Tzuo’s rollover and ongoing governance and employment arrangements
• SoftBank Vision Fund 2, as lead investor, in Terabase Energy's Series C financing round
• Julia Hartz, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Chair of Eventbrite in its $500 million pending acquisition by Bending Spoons
• Good World Management and its owner Brandon Creed in its strategic investment from and long-term partnership with Initial Group
• a sovereign wealth fund on minority investments in various U.S. technology companies*
• Transaction Services Group (TSG) in Calera Capital’s sale of a majority stake in TSG to Advent International Corporation*
• LINE Corporation and its group companies on a number of matters, including the establishment of a cryptocurrency-focused fund in Hong Kong; the acquisition of all assets comprising the music streaming business MixRadio from Microsoft Corporation; investments into funds in various jurisdictions; minority investments in various jurisdictions; and strategic joint ventures in various jurisdictions*
• JP Morgan as financial advisor to Ellie Mae, Inc. in its $3.7 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo LLC*
• The Culture Trip Ltd. on its investment from its founder and funds managed by PPF N.V.*
• ETF Securities Limited on the equity, U.S. and debt financing aspects of the $611 million sale of its European exchange-traded commodity, currency and short-and-leveraged business to WisdomTree Investments, Inc.*
• Montagu Private Equity LLP in its acquisition of Open International*
• a large Asian corporation on a $1 billion joint venture in southeast Asia*
• a large Asian corporation in its acquisition of a leading messaging platform*
• a U.S. hedge fund on its technology joint venture in China*
• LIXIL Corporation in its $3 billion acquisition of GROHE*
• ORIX Corporation in its €2 billion acquisition of Robeco from Rabobank*

 *Denotes representations undertaken prior to joining S&C.