Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, Fenwick & West LLP and JSA advised on Cisco’s acquisition of WideField Security.

WideField Security’s technology will be integrated into Cisco’s Splunk platform to enhance its agentic security operations center (SOC) capabilities by helping normalize and correlate identity, session and activity telemetry from a variety of sources. The acquisition will support Cisco’s development of enterprise-grade agent and agentic security solutions.

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP advised WideField Security on the said transaction.

The deal team was led by M&A partners Andrew Luh and David Moore and included M&A and corporate associates Sharon Leringato, Lizzie Jongeward and Kimberly Sheehan, strategic transactions and licensing partner Aaron Fiske and associate Alex Lee, executive compensation partner Craig Olshan and associate Erik Ward, tax partner Lily Kim and associate Ray Fang, regulatory partner Gregory Kinzelman, and employment and labor of counsel Michael Hui.

Fenwick & West LLP advised Cisco Systems, Inc. on the transaction.

The Fenwick transaction team includes corporate partners Doug Cogen, Ken Myers and Chris Gorman and associates Sammi Chen and Jonathan Archer; technology transactions partner Julia Arruda, associate Julia Chung and advisor Sandra Weustink; executive compensation and employee benefits partner Gerald Audant, counsel Laura Mclntyre and associate Rachel Coffey; privacy and cybersecurity partner Ana Razmazma, counsel Melanie Jolson and associate Natalie Kim; trade and national security partner Melissa Duffy and associates Brooklynn Moore and Channing Jones; antitrust and competition partner Steve Alberston; and tax partner Adam Halpern and associate Justin Folk.

JSA advised Cisco on the India leg of the global acquisition of WideField Security.

The transaction team was led by Joint Managing Partner Vivek K. Chandy and comprised Partners Saurya Bhattacharya and Mohammed Abid Hussain, and Associates Sapna Kataria, Ishaan Bhatnagar and Shraddha Kotiya.

The Employment team comprised Partner Preetha Soman and Principal Associate Madhur Khandelwal. The Direct Tax team comprised Kumarmanglam Vijay, Head of Practice, Direct Tax, and Associate Aditya Patadia. The Indirect Tax team comprised Partner Shareen Gupta and Principal Associate Ruchita Modi.