Japan’s SoftBank Group Corporation has acquired Ampere Computing, through its subsidiary, Silver Bands 6 (US) Corporation, for a total consideration of $6.5 billion.

Argus Partners advised Ampere Computing on Indian law on this transaction.

The transaction team consisted of Pallavi Kanakagiri and Anantha Krishnan Iyer (Partners).

Wilson Sonsini advised Ampere Computing on the overall transaction.

The transaction team was led by Robert G Day (Partner, Corporate/M&A), Todd Cleary (Partner, Corporate/M&A), Brendan Ripley Mahan (Partner, Corporate/M&A), Kristen Kercher (Partner, Corporate/M&A), and Eleanor Bleecker (Partner, Corporate/M&A).

Morrison Foerster advised SoftBank Group on this acquisition.

The transaction was led by Kenneth Siegel (Tokyo office Managing Partner, Head - Tokyo M&A team), and Lauren Bellerjeau (Corporate Partner, Austin). The global deal team included Corporate partners Eric McCrath, Matt O’Donnell, and Michael Santos.

Wolf Theiss acted as Polish counsel for SoftBank Group on this acquisition.

The transaction team was led by Katarzyna Wójcik-Bąkowska (Partner) and Krzysztof Libiszewski (Partner) and was further supported by Katarzyna Jaroszyńska-Lewandowska (Senior Associate) and Bartosz Lewandowski (Senior Associate).

Ampere Computing is a leading semiconductor design company specialising in high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable AI compute built on the ARM platform.

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