WilmerHale Advises Orbitera in Acquisition by Google

WilmerHale Advises Orbitera in Acquisition by Google

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Orbitera, a SaaS-based cloud commerce platform built to improve the buying and selling of software in the cloud, announced that it has been acquired by Google, becoming part of the Google Cloud Platform.

The Google Cloud Platform team shares Orbitera's vision for seamless purchase and deployment of IT services across heterogeneous cloud infrastructure. Orbitera has shared that becoming a part of Google will lead to the best possible outcome for customers while continuing to deliver the products and services current customers rely on with added scale that Google provides.

The WilmerHale team on the transaction was led by Partner Josh Fox and included Partner Jeff Hermanson (Corporate), Counsel Peter Osborn (Corporate), Associate Andrea Sorrentino (Corporate), Partner Bill Caporizzo (Tax), Counsel Ciara Baker (Tax), Associate Leah Segal (Tax), and Partners Mike Bevilacqua (IP), Ashwin Gokhale (IP), Amy Null (Employee Benefits), and Barry Hurewitz (Technology Regulation).

Read Orbitera's press release for more information.

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