Shearman & Sterling represented the Strategic Committee of the Board of Directors of Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST) in SST’s definitive merger agreement with Microchip Technology Incorporated.

SST is a leading memory and non-memory products provider for high-volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Microchip Technology Incorporated is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors.

The Shearman & Sterling team was led by San Francisco-based mergers & acquisitions partner Steve Camahort and San Francisco associate Dana Kromm and included partners Tina Patel (Menlo Park-Intellectual Property), Larry Crouch (Menlo Park-Tax), Beau Buffier (New York-Antitrust), John Cannon (New York-Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits) and Stephen Hibbard (San Francisco-Litigation) and associates Adam Kaminsky (New York-Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits), Sean Strauss (San Francisco-Litigation) and Ajay Chanayil (New York-Antitrust).