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Gordon R. Caplan

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Gordon R. Caplan is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department, Chairman of the Private Equity Practice and member of the Executive Committee of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Mr. Caplan specializes in private equity, leveraged buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, venture capital and technology related corporate matters. He has extensive experience representing equity sponsors as well as public and private companies on a spectrum of corporate matters, including private equity financings, public securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer agreements, joint ventures and licensing.

Chambers USA (2011) ranks Mr. Caplan among the leading individuals practicing in the area of Private Equity (Buyouts) nationally and Technology & Outsourcing in New York. He is also included in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Legal 500.

Selected Professional and Business Activities

Mr. Caplan has been published on the subject of M&A, private equity, corporate governance and high-technology transactions and has lectured on venture capital transactions at Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Fordham Law School. He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Private Equity Law360.

Selected Significant Matters

Private Equity and M&A

Cross-border combination of two of the world’s largest private
software companies
Insight Venture Partners as a lead investor in the $85 million venture capital financing of blogging platform Tumblr
Insight Venture Partners as selling shareholder in Google’s acquisition of Berlin-based daily bargains website DailyDeal GmbH
Ticket Monster in its sale to LivingSocial
Insight Venture Partners and Lightyear Capital Partners in connection with the sale of Realm Business Solutions, Inc. to Altus Group Limited
Insight Venture Partners in the formation of new funds totaling $2 billion
Investor group in growth investment in Jagex Limited
Best Buy’s sale of Speakeasy to Covad Communications
Sale of Optonol, Ltd. to Alcon Inc.
Lead investor in Equity and Debt financing for Chegg.com, Inc.
Selling shareholders in connection with Initial Public Offering of Solarwinds, Inc.
Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners in connection with the leveraged recapitalization of German software company
Insight Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs and Bessemer Venture Partners in connection with the leveraged recapitalization of Syncsort
Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. in connection with private equity financing from, and strategic arrangement with, Societe Generale
Seaport Capital in connection with the leveraged buyout of Worley Adjuster Services
Insight Venture Partners in connection with the sale of Hitwise, Inc. to Experian
Warburg Pincus in connection with its investment in Integra Telecom
Sale of Procuri, Inc. to Ariba, Inc.
Insight Venture Partners in connection with the leveraged buyout of Symark International, Inc.
Berkley Capital in connection with the leveraged buyout of Pay-O-Matic, Inc.
Sale of Osteobiologics Inc. to Smith & Nephew, Inc.
Thomas McNerney & Partners in acquisition of controlling interest in Galil Medical LTD
Warburg Pincus in connection with the sale of UGS PLM to Siemens
Insight Venture Partners in connection with the leveraged buyout of eCommerce Industries, Inc.
Insight Venture Partners and Lightyear Capital Partners in connection with the leveraged buyout of Realm Business Solutions, Inc.
Sale of Scriptlogic Software Inc. to Quest Software, Inc.
Thomas McNerney & Partners in connection with the acquisition of Solstice Neurosciences, Inc.
Insight Venture Partners in connection with the leveraged buyout of GFI Software Limited
Sale of Imceda Software Inc. to Quest Software Inc.
Warburg Pincus in connection with the leveraged buyout of the UGS PLM engineering software development division of EDS
Warburg Pincus in connection with the leveraged buyout of Infogenesis
Leveraged recapitalization of eCommerce Industries, Inc.
Leveraged recapitalization of GFI Software Limited
Leveraged recapitalization of Acronis Software, Inc.
Sale of Aelita Software, Inc. to Quest Software, Inc.
Recapitalization of ATX Communications, Inc.
Recapitalization and restructuring of FiberNet Telecom Group Inc.

Outsourcing and Technology Transfer Agreements

Best Buy Co., Inc. in the formation of a strategic MVNO relationship between its subsidiary Best Buy Connect, LLC and Clearwire Corporation to offer newly branded 4G mobile broadband service
BPO outsourcing arrangements for Embarq Corporation
CDMA EV-DO broadband wireless technology deployment arrangements between each of Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Samsung and Sprint
BPO and procurement outsourcing arrangement between Accenture and Deutsche Bank
CDMA License and Development Arrangements between Reliance Infocom Limited of India and Qualcomm, Inc.
Turnkey Nationwide Network Backbone Supply and Buildout Arrangements between Reliance Infocom Limited of India and Nortel Networks
3G Nationwide Network Enhancement Arrangements among Sprint Corporation and Sprint PCS as joint owners and each of Lucent Technologies, Inc., Motorola, Inc. and Nortel Networks Inc.
Sprint Corporation Acquisition and Redeployment of the Hawaii PCS Network from PrimeCo Personal Communications, L.P.
National Distribution and Joint Marketing Agreement between Sprint PCS and the Radio Shack Division of Tandy Corporation
Fibernet Telecom Group, Inc. in connection with multiple dark and lit fiber multi-year indefeasible rights of use