Davis Polk advised Equinix, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Nimbo Technologies Inc., a professional services company focused primarily on helping enterprises develop and implement hybrid cloud IT architectures. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Equinix is a global inter-connection and data center company. Equinix connects more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix inter-connection platform in 32 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region. The acquisition of Nimbo represents an important step in Equinix’s larger initiative to build its professional services capabilities to support data center migrations, WAN optimization and the creation of scalable, high-performing hybrid cloud solutions.
The Davis Polk corporate team included partner Alan F. Denenberg and associates Emily Roberts, Jason Bassetti and Donald K. Lang. Partner Rachel D. Kleinberg and associate Kelli A. Rivers provided tax advice. The intellectual property team included law clerk Michelle Gross and associate Nikita A. Tuckett. Counsel Cynthia Akard provided executive compensation advice. Members of the Davis Polk team are based in the Menlo Park and New York offices.
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