Bio

David Neequaye has spent his 15+ year career advising companies on a broad range of strategic and M&A matters and has executed over $75 billion in transactions. Representative transactions include advising Cisco Systems on its $5.0 billion acquisition of NDS and $2.7bn acquisition of Sourcefire; Motorola Inc. on its $10.0 billion spinoff of its Mobility & Connected Home businesses and the $1 billion divestiture of its wireless infrastructure business to Nokia-Siemens Networks; Motorola Mobility on its $12 billion sale to Google; SonicWall on its 2010 LBO by Thoma Bravo and subsequent sale to Dell; Huawei Technologies on the divestiture of its interest in H3C to 3Com and its proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of 3Com in conjunction with Bain Capital; Itron on its $1.7 billion acquisition of Actaris and Convergys on its $820mm acquisition of Stream Global Services. Mr. Neequaye is a founding member of the Technology practice at Centerview Partners. Prior to Centerview, he was a Director at UBS. Mr. Neequaye holds a First-Class Honours degree from the London School of Economics and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.