Daniel Mitz is Shearman & Sterling’s global head of Tech M&A and a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.

He represents companies in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. He has extensive experience advising clients on corporate governance and fiduciary duty matters.

Daniel has lived and worked in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years.

• SAP in its acquisitions of Qualtrics ($8 billion), Callidus ($2.4 billion), Concur ($8.3 billion), Ariba ($4.3 billion), Sybase ($5.8 billion), Emarsys and Gigya
• SAP in its sale of its Digital Interconnect business ($250 million) to Sinch and sale of its ERC and ERD businesses to Verisk
• Hitachi in its acquisitions of GlobalLogic ($9.5 billion), Pentaho and REAN Cloud
• Citrix in its acquisition of Wrike ($2.25 billion)
• NIC in its sale to Tyler Technologies ($2.3 billion)
• Qualtrics in the carve out of Qualtrics from SAP and Qualtrics’ initial public offering raising $1.55 billion and concurrent $670 million private placements
• Qualtrics in its acquisition of Clarabridge ($1.125 billion)
• Nvidia in its acquisition of Mellanox ($6.9 billion)
• Cylance in its sale to BlackBerry ($1.4 billion)
• Oclaro in its sale to Lumentum ($1.8 billion)
• Next Insurance in its acquisition of AP Intego
• Inside Secure in its acquisition of Verimatrix for approximately $145 million
• Veramatrix in its sale of its Silicon IP and Secure Protocols business to Rambus ($65 million)
• VMware in its acquisitions of CloudHealth Technologies and Arkin
• Ansys in its acquisitions of Granta Design and Optis
• Lam Research in its acquisitions of Novellus ($3.3 billion), attempted acquisition of KLA-Tencor ($10.6 billion) and acquisition of Coventor
• Canyon Bridge in its attempted acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor ($1.3 billion)
• Itron in its acquisitions of Silver Spring Networks ($830 million) and Comverge ($100 million)
• Linear Technology in its sale to Analog Devices ($14.8 billion)
• Intersil in its sale to Renesas Electronics ($3.2 billion)
• Atmel in its attempted sale to Dialog Semiconductor ($4.6 billion) and subsequent sale to Microchip ($3.6 billion)
• Bell Microproducts in its sale to Avnet ($594 million)
• Randstad in its acquisition of Monster ($429 million)
• NXP in its acquisition of OmniPHY
• ETS in its acquisition of Questar ($127.5 million)
• Second Measure in its sale to Bloomberg
• Check in its sale to Intuit ($360 million)
• Next Insurance in its financing led by Munich Re ($250 million) and in a separate financing led by Capital G ($250 million)
• GE in its acquisition of IQP

Awards & Accolades

• Chambers USA – Corporate/M&A – Northern California (2019 and 2020)
• Law360 MVP – Technology (2017)
• “Top 100 Lawyers in California,” Daily Journal (2012 and 2016)