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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented co-founder and co-owner of Mailchimp in its sale to Intuit. Subject to required regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, this transaction will make history as the largest sale of a self-funded technology company, largest sale of a private software company, largest sale of a SMB software company and largest sale of a marketing software company.

• This transaction was announced on September 13, 2021.
• McDermott Will & Emery acted as legal counsel to Mailchimp’s co-founder and co-owner.
• Read Intuit’s press release.
• The McDermott team was led by Richard Lang and Wilson Chu, with the M&A team including Joanna Lin, Diego Gomez-Cornejo, Eric Orsic, Lindsey Reighard, Matthew Chen and Elizabeth Hattrup. McDermott’s Private Client counsel included Neil Kawashima, Michael Rosen-Prinz, Arianne Plasencia, Agnieszka Kawecki and Greg Meints. Tax counsel included Dan Zucker, Patrick McCurry and Alex Farr.

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