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Michael Grimes has been involved with hundreds of technology investment banking transactions aggregating over $100 billion in value, including a number of high-profile IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings. Most notable were Facebook's $16 billion initial public offering, and Google’s $1.9 billion initial public offering, completed with an auction format. Other high-profile technology IPOs he worked on include Accenture, Atheros, Bigband, Cymer, Rambus, @Home Networks, Brocade, Extreme Networks, Omniture, Optium, SanDisk, Seagate Technology, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), SuccessFactors, and VeriSign. Recently, Grimes worked on HP’s acquisition of 3Com, Omniture’s acquisition by Adobe, Dell’s acquisition of Perot Systems, Zappos joining forces with Amazon, AdMob’s acquisition by Google, EMC’s acquisition of Data Domain, Dash Navigation’s acquisition by Research in Motion, Logitech’s acquisition of LifeSize and the IPOs for A123 Systems, Avago, Ancestry.com, Digital Globe, and Fortinet, along with the follow-on offering for SuccessFactors and debt offering for Netflix. Grimes has also been involved with technology M&A transactions such as Seagate Technology’s $20.5 billion 3-way merger and spinoff transaction with Veritas Software, Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group, Hewlett-Packard’s $13.6 billion split-up into HP and Agilent (at the time the Agilent IPO was the largest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history), Oracle’s $5.8 billion acquisition of Siebel Systems.

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