Blue Coat Systems General Counsel to Speak at Law Seminars International's Second Annual West Coast Forum on Technology M&A
Betsy Bayha to Address Structuring the Tech M&A Transaction at San Francisco Conference
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – September 10, 2007 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), a leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Betsy Bayha, the company’s senior vice president, general counsel and secretary will be speaking at Law Seminars International’s Second Annual West Coast Forum on Technology M&A on “The Basics—Structuring the Tech M&A Transaction.” The conference will be held at the Le Meridien San Francisco Hotel on Sept. 10-11, 2007.
During the session, “The Basics—Structuring the Tech M&A Transaction,” Bayha, together with Richard Climan and Keith Flaum, partners at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, will discuss key issues in structuring technology acquisitions, including the differences between acquisitions of public versus private companies; using buyer’s stock as acquisition currency; exchange ratio formulations; taxes; securities; earn-outs; and one-step versus two-step acquisition structures. More information regarding the session is included below.
| Who: | Betsy Bayha, senior vice president, General Counsel, Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and Richard Climan, partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Keith Flaum, partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP |
| What: | The Basics—Structuring the Tech M&A Transaction |
| Where: | Law Seminars International’s West Coast Forum on Technology M&A, Le Meridien Hotel, San Francisco |
| When: | Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, 8:45 a.m. |
About Bayha
Bayha brings more than 25 years of experience in providing legal representation to high technology companies. Prior to joining Blue Coat, Bayha served as senior vice president and General Counsel of NetIQ Corporation. She holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, an M.A. degree in public administration from The Ohio State University and a B.A. degree in economics from Oakland University.
About Law Seminars International’s West Coast Forum on Technology M&A
Technology M&A deals continue to make headlines and they’re bigger and more complex than ever. Changing market dynamics, innovative deal structures, new market participants and far-reaching developments in the legal, tax, accounting, securities and antitrust areas have combined to change the “rules of the road” for technology companies and their advisors. This two-day program is designed to help in-house and private practice lawyers, CEOs, CFOs, corporate development officers, accountants, investment bankers and other professionals understand and meet the challenges of the new era of technology M&A. More information can be found at http://www.lawseminars.com/section_details/07MACA.htm.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
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