Morrison & Foerster advises DSP Group in sale to Synaptics

Morrison & Foerster advises DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSPG) (“DSP Group”), a leading global provider of voice and wireless chipset solutions for converged communications, in connection with its sale to Synaptics Incorporated (NYSE: SYNA) (“Synaptics”), in an all cash deal for $22 per share. Goldman Sachs was financial advisor to DSP Group.

The MoFo deal team advising DSP Group was led by San Francisco corporate partner Jackie Liu, together with Tokyo partner Leo Aguilar and San Francisco associate James Lee, with invaluable advice from San Francisco partner Michael O’Bryan. The wider team included San Francisco technology transactions partner Rufus Pichler and of counsel Susanne Petersen; Washington, D.C. antitrust partner Jeff Jaeckel and associate Kerry Jones; San Francisco executive compensation partner Amanda Hines Gold; San Francisco tax of counsel Joy MacIntyre, New York associate Katherine Erbeznik, and San Francisco associate John O’Neill; New York privacy and data security partner Kristen Mathews; Palo Alto labor and employment of counsel Oswald Cousins and Los Angeles associate Neil Tyler; and Washington, D.C. national security of counsel Panagiotis Bayz.

Read more in DSP Group's press release.