Mark W. Seneca

Mark Seneca, a corporate partner in the Silicon Valley office, is a member of Orrick’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group and Emerging Companies Group.  Mr. Seneca has dedicated his legal career to the M&A specialty, with experience in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions involving both public and private companies in domestic and cross-border deals.  As a member of Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group, he has a particular focus on the technology sector. 

Mr. Seneca has served as lead M&A counsel on the buy-side for both public company serial acquirers, including Apple, Yahoo!, Intellisync and Xilinx, and private company serial acquirers, such as eHarmony, Facebook, RockYou, Exponential Interactive, The Resource Group International Limited and Handmark.  He also has served as lead M&A counsel on numerous sale transactions involving major technology sector participants, including Microsoft, IBM, Computer Associates, Walt Disney, SSA Global Technologies, MySpace and SiRF.

Mr. Seneca’s representative engagements include the following.

• Apple Inc. in its acquisition of Siri, Inc.
• Citizen Sports, Inc. in its sale to Yahoo! Inc.
• Xoopit, Inc. in its sale to Yahoo! Inc.
• Digital Media Group Company Limited in its sale to VisionChina Media Inc.
• iLike, Inc. in its sale to MySpace.
• Vhayu Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Thomson Reuters.
• Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. in its acquisition of eRide, Inc.
• Google, Inc. in the sale of its Performics division to Publicis Groupe.
• Powerset, Inc. in its sale to Microsoft Corporation.
• Medstory, Inc. in its sale to Microsoft Corporation.
• Centrality Communications, Inc. in its sale to SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc.
• Purisma Incorporated in its sale to Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
• Sandwork Design, Inc. in its sale to Synopsys, Inc.
• Facebook in its acquisition of Parakey, Inc.
• Laserscope in its acquisition of InnovaQuartz Incorporated and its sale to American Medical Systems.
• Montigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its sale to SuperGen, Inc.
• The Resource Group International Limited in numerous M&A transactions and acquisition financings.
• Meta Group, Inc. in its sale to Gartner, Inc.
• Yahoo! Inc. in its sale of NetRoadshow, Inc. to a management group, its sale of Launch Radio networks to United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. its acquisition of eGroups, Inc. and its acquisition of Innovative Systems Services Group, Inc. 
• Ironside Technologies in its sale to SSA Global Technologies Inc.
• Access360 in its sale to IBM.
• Whistle Communications in its sale to IBM.

Admitted in

• California
• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Memberships

• District of Columbia Bar Association
• State Bar of California
• State Bar of Virginia
• American Bar Association

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