From left to right: Dan Vaughn, associate general counsel and M&A lead at Intel Corp.; Wei Chen, associate general counsel at Salesforce; moderator Vanina Guerrero, who is a DLA Piper partner; Erin Rinn, corporate counsel, securities M&A at VMware; and Dena Acevedo, senior corporate counsel at Juniper Networks.
On Wednesday, in-house tech lawyers discussed hot topics in M&A from the buyer’s perspective for a panel at DLA Piper’s Global Technology Summit in Menlo Park, California. Here are five takeaways from the afternoon panel:
1. Changing Salary Laws: California employers can no longer ask candidates about salary history during the hiring process. But that line gets blurry when it comes to the purchased companies’ employees’ post-acquisition salaries. “It’s a grey area,” said Erin Rinn, corporate counsel, securities M&A at VMware. “Generally to be safe, most colleagues I’ve talked to at companies do their leveling, with respect to M&A, without current salary information.”
