Leif King

Leif King is the head of the corporate/M&A practice in Skadden’s Palo Alto office. He represents clients in connection with a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, activist investor situations, recapitalizations, spin-offs and minority investments.

Mr. King regularly advises public and private companies on corporate, corporate governance and securities law compliance issues. Mr. King’s transactions include the representation of:

• Cadence Design Systems Inc. in its $170 million acquisition of Jasper Design Automation, Inc.;
• Con-way Inc. in its acquisition of Transportation Resources, Inc. and the sale of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, Inc. to United Parcel Service, Inc.;
• DocuSign, Inc. in its acquisition of the Trusted Documents and Transactions unit of Keynectis S.A.;
• The special committee of the board of directors of Ellation, Inc. in the acquisition by Otter Media Holdings, LLC of the remaining stake in Ellation it did not already own;
• EnergySolutions in its $1.1 billion acquisition by a subsidiary of private equity firm Energy Capital Partners II, LLC;
• funds affiliated with Fortress Investment Group in its investment in the $460 million recapitalization of Opus Bank (formerly Bay Cities National Bank);
• Hewlett-Packard Company in its acquisition of Voltage Security, Inc. and in its investment in Hortonworks Inc.;
• McKesson Corporation in its $2.16 billion acquisition of US Oncology and in its acquisition of A.L.I. Technologies Inc.;
• Safeco Corporation in its $6.2 billion merger with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company;

Education:

• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1996, (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif)
• B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1992 (Phi Beta Kappa)

Admissions:

• California
• District of Columbia