Mr. Denenberg is a partner in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department and head of the Northern California office. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions. His practice includes a broad range of public and private equity and debt financing representing both domestic and foreign issuers and underwriters in a variety of industries, including technology, telecommunications, healthcare, retail and manufacturing. In the mergers and acquisitions area, Mr. Denenberg has worked on a number of public and private transactions, representing both acquirer and target companies, as well as private equity firms.
Mr. Denenberg has worked on public offerings, including convertible, investment-grade and high-yield debt and equity offerings, for a variety of companies, including Alphabet, Altera, Amazon, Baidu, Carvana, ChemoCentryx, Citrix, Cisco, Coherus, Cypress Semiconductor, Denali, Equinix, Five Prime Therapeutics, FleetMatics, Fortinet, GoDaddy, Intel, InterMolecular, Intuit, Ionis, Juniper, Kythera, LinkedIn, Nanostring, NetApp, Netsuite, Nevro, Nice-Systems, Nike, Nvidia, OpenTable, Pacific Biosciences, Penumbra, Pure Storage, Quantenna, QuinStreet, Quotient Technology, Rally Software, Rambus, Roku, Salesforce, Seattle Genetics, ShockWave Medical, Shutterfly, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonosite, Spansion, Theravance, Tibco, Torchmark, Twitter, Ultra Clean Holdings, ViewRay, Virgin America, Vishay, Workday, Xilinx, Yahoo, Yelp, Zeltiq and ZS Pharma.
Recent IPOs for which Mr. Denenberg had primary responsibility include Alector, Allakos, Aslan, Bloom Energy, Carvana, Denali, Elastic, Endava, Penumbra, Pivotal Software, Pure Storage, Roku, SMART Global Holdings, SolarWinds and Unity Healthcare.
He spent five years practicing in Asia, during which time he focused on cross-border financings and mergers and acquisitions, including various financings by Telstra, the Australian telecommunications company, and China Eastern Airlines.
Mr. Denenberg has regularly provided general corporate advice to companies, including Accuray, AssetMark, Bloom Energy, Equinix, Ingram Micro, McKesson, Mirion Technology, Penumbra, Pivotal Software, QuinStreet, ShockWave Medical, Smart Modular, Ultra Clean and ViewRay.