Bio

David Hess is a member of the firm’s technology investment banking team. He has more than 18 years of experience assisting companies on a wide range of strategic matters. Representative transaction experience includes the: pending separation of Xerox into two independent companies (advisor to Board of Directors); pending $6.5 billion sale of Solera to Vista Equity Partners (advisor to Special Committee); $14 billion sale of Clearwire to Sprint (advisor to Special Committee); $5.3 billion sale of MICROS Systems to Oracle; $4.1 billion sale of Perot Systems to Dell; $2.7 billion acquisition of TriZetto by Cognizant; $2.1 billion acquisition of Novell by Attachmate; $1.6 billion sale of L-1 Identity Solutions to Safran and BAE; $1.1 billion sale of Satyam to Tech Mahindra; $1.1 billion sale of Witness Systems to Verint; sale of Entrust to Datacard; and the sale of SonicWall to Dell. Additional buyside M&A experience includes CA Technologies’ acquisition of Concord; Cablevision’s acquisition of the Sundance Channel; Goldman Sachs’ acquisition of Alliance Atlantis; McGraw-Hill’s acquisition of J.D. Power and Associates; Monster Worldwide’s acquisitions of Affinity Labs and ChinaHR; and Sungard’s acquisition of GL Trade. Additional sellside experience includes the sale of Contec to Bain Capital; MediMedia to Vestar Capital Partners; Synapse Wireless to McWane; Teradyne Connection Systems to Amphenol; and WebCT to Blackboard. Mr. Hess has also executed numerous financing transactions for a diverse group of industry leaders including AT&T, Comcast, Cornerstone OnDemand, Genpact, Priceline, RiskMetrics, SolarWinds and Stream Global Services. Prior to joining Centerview in 2011, Mr. Hess spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a Managing Director with responsibility for the firm’s software and IT services investment banking practice. Mr. Hess began his career at Schroder & Co.