A team of lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP represented eBay in its $2.4 billion acquisition of GSI Commerce, a leading provider of ecommerce and interactive marketing services. The acquisition, which will be financed with cash and debt, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011.
The deal team was led by Partners Keith Flaum and Jane Ross from the firm’s Silicon Valley office and included lawyers from the firm’s Chicago, Los Angeles and New York offices.
The firm has served as long-time legal counsel to eBay, handling many of the company’s deals over the last several years. This includes the sale of its 65 percent stake of Skype for $1.9 billion, the private acquisition of mobile application developer Critical Path Software and the $200 million acquisition of brands4friends, Germany’s largest online fashion shopping club.
The Dewey & LeBoeuf deal team is as follows:
- Keith Flaum (M&A Partner)
- Jane Ross (M&A Partner)
- Rick Climan (M&A Partner)
- Nick Ramphal (M&A Associate)
- David Smith (Corporate Partner)
- Andrew Schwab (Corporate Associate)
- Eric Reifschneider (Tech Transactions Partner)
- Rob Finkel (Tech Transactions Partner)
- Spencer Wood (Tech Transactions Counsel)
- Karen Francis (Tech Transactions Associate)
- Art Hazlitt (Tax Partner)
- William Kellogg (Tax Associate)
- Greg Owens (Finance Partner)
- Patti Marks (Finance Counsel)
- Jason Frank (Finance Associate)
- Virginia Blabey (Finance Associate)
- Mitch Pahl (Employment Partner)
- Lucericia Messiah (Employment Associate)
