Peter T. Heilmann is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is a member of the firm's Corporation Transactions, Emerging Technologies, and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. His practice involves the representation of business organizations as to mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities, corporate finance, and general business matters.
Mr. Heilmann regularly counsels clients across a variety of industries, including leading publicly held technology companies, innovative startups, and private equity firms. He advises clients on ongoing corporate governance and regulatory matters, as well as strategic matters including mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions. Mr. Heilmann has extensive experience representing both U.S. and foreign buyers and sellers successfully completing U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and investments. Mr. Heilmann has also represented investors in a variety of public and private securities offerings, including strategic minority investments.
Representative clients have included: Amazon.com, California Water Service Group, Calypso Technologies, Inc., Duckhorn Vineyards, GI Partners and Intel Corporation.
Mr. Heilmann is a member of the California Bar Association. He received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, where he was an Articles Editor and the Executive Editor of the
International Tax and Business Lawyer. Mr. Heilmann received his Bachelor of Arts degree,
cum laude, in Economics from the University of California, Davis in 1990.
Representative M&A Transactions
• Amazon.com, Inc.
Acquisition of ABE Books (price undisclosed)
Acquisition of Zappos.com, Inc. ($807 million)
• Ask Jeeves, Inc.
Sale to JAC/Inter Active Corp. ($2.3 billion)
• Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Acquisition of Design Acceleration, Inc. (price undisclosed)
• California Water Service Group
Sale of non-regulated business to Home Service USA (price undisclosed)
• GI Partners
Acquisition of Duckhorn Vineyards (price undisclosed)
• GlobespanVirata, Inc.
Cash sale of iCompression, Inc. (video compression business) to Conextant Systems (price undisclosed)
• KMV LLC
Cash acquisition by Moody's Corporation (price undisclosed)
• Intel Corporation
Joint Venture:
Formation of Numonyx Joint Venture with ST Microsystems and Francisco Partners
Public Companies:
Stock-for-stock acquisition of Level One Communications ($2.2 billion)
Private Companies:
Cash share purchase acquisition of Danish company Giga A/S ($1.25 billion)
Stock for cash acquisition – VxTel, Inc. ($491 million)
Cash share purchase acquisition of German company ICP Vortex (price undisclosed)
• Motiva, Inc.
Cash acquisition by Siebel Systems ($2 million)
• Pace plc
Acquisition of 2Wire, Inc. ($475 million)
• PeopleSoft, Inc.
Public Companies:
Stock-for-stock merger acquisition of The Vantive Corporation ($433 million)
Stock and cash tender offer/merger acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Company ($2 billion)
Defense of hostile takeover by Oracle Corporation
Sale to Oracle Corporation ($10.3 billion)
Private Companies:
Acquisition of Advance Planning Solutions (price undisclosed)
Acquisition of Distinction Software (price undisclosed)
Acquisition of Istante Software (price undisclosed)
Acquisition of Intrepid Systems ($37.5 million)
Acquisition of Skills Village ($31.5 million)
• RedFed Bancorp
Stock-for-stock acquisition of RedFed by Golden State Bancorp. ($160 million)
• Willis Lease Finance Corporation
Sale of two subsidiaries to SwissAir Group (price undisclosed)
Representative Initial Public Offerings and Secondary Offerings
• AMB
• Building Materials Holding Corporation
• California Water Service Company
• KMV LLC
• Sonus Networks
• Travelscape.com
• VINA Technologies, Inc.
• WebEx Communications
• Wells Fargo Bank
• Whole Foods Market
• Willis Lease Finance Corporation